Whitehead v. Aluminum Co. of America

ROBERT L. TAYLOR, Chief Judge.

This is a suit for workmen’s compensation benefits under the law of Tennessee. Ed Whitehead, now deceased, and plaintiff’s intestate, was an employee of the defendant, Aluminum Company of America, over a period of years and on December 12, 1962 he was engaged in his work in the shear room where rolls of aluminum of designated width and length came down a conveyor system where the rolls were cut off into sheets of a pre-determined length automatically.

In this operation, there is one man stationed at each end of the sheet so cut from the roll who picks up the…