Coombs v. Kirsch Co.

This appeal involves an award by the department of labor and industry. Walter Coombs, plaintiff, 27 years of age, was employed as a punch-press operator by defendant, Kirsch Company. About August 28, 1940, he suffered a hernia which occurred while he was pushing a truck load of steel. He reported to his foreman on the same day and was sent by the company to a doctor who reported that he believed plaintiff could hold his hernia satisfactorily with a truss. Defendant furnished a truss and plaintiff returned to work at his same job. He worked one day when he was taken ill with a flare-up or…