Peluck v. Pacific MacHine & Blacksmith Co.

This is an action under the Employers’ Liability Act to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff while employed by defendant in the installation of two new gear wheels in a forty-eight-inch lathe machine.

The large gear wheel, which was attached to the face plate, or disk, of the lathe, was thirty-five inches in diameter and the smaller gear or pinion wheel which meshed in the large wheel was six inches in diameter. After these new gear wheels had been installed and the power was applied, it developed that the teeth of the wheels did not properly mesh,…