Dame v. Bay State Stevedoring Co.

In this action of tort for negligence a Superior Court judge found for the plaintiff. The case is here on the defendant’s exceptions. The plaintiff, a trucking company employee, was injured when struck on the right shoulder by a bale of fiber while engaged in transferring bales from a pile of bales to a truck by means of a forklift being operated by a fellow employee. The bales were rectangular in shape and each weighed between four and five hundred pounds. When struck, the plaintiff was standing about nine feet from the pile and two or three feet from the forklift on which three bales had…