Flour v. Pennsylvania Railroad

Opinion by

Tkexler, P. J.,

This is an appeal from the action of the' lower court sustaining an award of compensation made by the referee and compensation board.

The claimant was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in its steel car shop at Pitcairn, Pennsylvania, as a car repairman. On August 24, 1928, between two and three A. M., while in the course of his employment with the defendant, he was underneath a railroad car performing his usual work of “bucking” up rivets. He was holding a tool against the bottom of a rivet which was being driven by another man on the inside of the car with…