Prentiss Wabers Products Co. v. Industrial Commission

The question upon this appeal is whether the evidence sustains the findings of the Industrial Commission that defendant Sowaske sustained a personal injury in the nature of a right inguinal hernia as the result of an accident on June 17, 1935, while Sowaske was in the employ of the plaintiff Prentiss Wabers Products Company. Sowaske was a grinding-machine operator, and his time was divided between grinding-machine operations and removal of dies from the grinding machine. It was the practice to remove by hand all dies weighing from five to fifty pounds. Dies in excess of this weight were…