American Rolling Mill Co. v. Stevens

Opinion op the Court by

Sims, Commissioner

— Affirming.

In 1927 Lewis Stevens, hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff, entered the employment of the American Rolling Mill Company, hereinafter referred to as the Company. On Jan. 15, 1939, while working with a crew of men at a conveyor table on which loads of steel are brought into the “pickier” room, a load of some 19,000 or 20,000 pounds stuck, and in prising the load loose with a metal rod about four feet long the plaintiff claims to have strained his 'back which resulted in his permanent total disability.

The Workmen’s Compensation Board,…