American Steel Foundries v. Industrial Commission

The circuit court of Madison county confirmed an award made by the Industrial Commission in favor of Virgil Cochran against his employer, the American Steel Foundries, for temporary total disability, and a writ of error has been awarded to the employer to review the judgment.

Cochran was employed in the wheel department of the plaintiff in error’s foundries, operating an electric crane, which ran upon a track suspended fifteen feet in the air. He operated it from a cage beneath the track, nine feet above the floor. The track ran parallel with and eighteen or twenty feet from the front of a…