Comar v. Department of Labor & Industries

The respondent sustained a minor injury while engaged in unloading crushed rock from a barge on Hood Canal. His claim for compensation was denied by the department of labor and industries, upon the ground that the injury was sustained while he was engaged in an off-shore occupation, not under the protection of the state workmen’s compensation act. On appeal to the superior court, the department was reversed, and judgment entered directing the department to pay the respondent the sum of one hundred forty dollars, with costs. The trial court found:

“That said plaintiff was employed on the shore,…