Barlau v. Minneapolis-Moline Power Implement Co.

Peterson, Justice.

The work of Alfred A. Barlau, employe, was to drill iron castings with a drill press in the employer’s machine shop in Hopkins. He took the castings from a wheelbarrow, in which they were hauled and placed on his right, and, after drilling them, put them in a tray on his left.

While engaged in doing his work at about 11:30 a. m. on March 29, 1938, he fell to the floor. A fellow workman found him unconscious, lying on his right side close to the press and about a foot from the tray on his left. His legs were “kind of folded back” and curled under him. His eyes were wide open…