Saxe Operating Corp. v. Industrial Commission

The employee here in question was killed while attempting to enter a passenger elevator after it had started upward, but before the operator had completely closed the landing doors. The plaintiff employer paid the death benefit fixed by the workmen’s compensation act. The commission found that death was caused by the failure of the employer to comply with an order of the commission relating to passenger elevators which required that “the landing doors . . . must be closed and locked before the car leaves the landing.” The single question presented is whether the commission was warranted in…