Chouinard's Case

The employee, sixteen years of age, was employed learning doffing at the self insurer’s mill. He worked in the spinning room, where the temperature was eighty to ninety degrees Fahrenheit and the air was filled with particles of cotton. His hours were from 3:40 p.m. to 9:40 p.m., but frequently he and others who lacked passes *153to leave early, when their work was finished, went to the locker room at the end of the spinning room and waited there until a signal sounded at 9:40 p.m. This room, twenty-five by ten feet, contained steel lockers of usual size for workers’ clothes. Through it passed…