Poston v. Southeastern Const. Co.

The respondent testified, in substance, that on or about November 21 (it developed that it was on November 23), 1942, he was working on the top of a building for the appellant, Southeastern Construction Company, and while guiding a wooden truss, being lowered by a crane, into place, “a puff of something from the truss filled both eyes” ; that the substance melted before he could get it out of his eyes, and that his eyes soon became so inflamed and ran so continuously that he could not work; that the company nurse sent him to a doctor but the doctor could do nothing for him, and the next day…