Chain v. Industrial Accident Commission

This petition to review an award of the Industrial Accident Commission (Workmen’s Compensation Act, Stats. 1917, p. 831) discloses that Charles A. Daugherty, the applicant before the commission, was employed by petitioner, a general building contractor. During the course of his employment Daugherty was assigned the duty of passing lumber from the ground floor to a fellow employee on the roof. To' do so he stood upon a scaffold in the center of the building against which the lumber to be passed was placed, one end resting against the scaffold. While so engaged the scaffold collapsed, injuring…