Flesch v. Phillips Petroleum Co.

This is a proceeding under the workmen’s compensation law. Joseph C. Flesch, plaintiff, was employee, and Phillips Petroleum Company, defendant, was employer.

Plaintiff was engaged in the duties of his employment March 10, 1931, in an automobile service station operated by his employer at Forty-eighth and Dodge streets, Omaha. While then and there at work below the rear end of an automobile which had been elevated to a height of 55 inches on a hoist, he attempted to loosen rear shackle bolts with an iron bar which suddenly slipped when he was suspended thereon by his hands and, leaning…