Consolidated Coal & Coke Co. v. Lazaroff

Plaintiffs in error, as employer and insurance carrier respectively, here seek the reversal of a judgment of the district court affirming an award of the Industrial-Commission granting a surgical operation and workmen’s compensation for a hernia, to defendant in error, the employee claimant.

February 7, 1941, a piece of coal weighing about fifty pounds, which claimant had just placed on a mine car, started to fall or roll toward him. He shoved the right side of his body up against the descending coal and succeeded in holding it in the car. In so doing his left foot slipped, but he did not…