Western Mattress Co. v. Ostergaard

Dueeie, C.

Plaintiff in error is engaged in the manufacture of iron bedsteads at the city of Lincoln. Ostergaard, an employee, was injured in the defendant’s foundry by molten metal, which ñew from a chill or mould and struck him in the left eye. It appears from the evidence that the foundry is provided with a number of benches, where the hands “assemble” or place the rods and other parts of the bed in a frame attached thereto in such manner as, when bound together, to make a completed head or foot piece of the bed. The frame is also supplied with moulds or chills at proper places, and into…