Rosso v. Aetna Steel Products Corp.

Opinion by

Hirt, J.,

Claimant in the course of his employment with defendant sustained an inguinal hernia. For the resulting disability he sought compensation in this case. There is no dispute as to the circumstances attending the injury. Claimant was a lockmaker. On completing the assembly of each lock he placed it in a nearby box. When the box was filled with locks it was his duty to pick it up and deposit it elsewhere in defendant’s plant. He had been doing the same kind of work since February 1950 and had been handling boxes of locks in this manner since that date. On March 2, 1951, in…