Petersen v. Department of Labor & Industries

Carl W. Petersen, age forty-six, had been engaged in extrahazardous employment for the Rayonier Pulp & Paper Company for about four years.

On January 5, 1950, he engaged in his usual duties as a deck man, which included scrubbing boxes, pushing a broom-through the boxes to agitate the liquor therein, cleanup work, and the like. The work entailed considerable stooping, and required him to be on his feet most of the time.

At about ten o’clock a. m., he and two other employees rolled a fifty-gallon barrel weighing about four hundred pounds up a wooden ramp thirty-one feet long, which extended from…