Stanton v. Morrison Mills, Inc.

The machines which the plaintiff was tending at the time of the accident were wood-turning lathes, each of which was equipped with an automatic device, referred to in the evidence as a magazine or hopper. This device comprised two steel uprights, twenty inches high, into the grooves of which the stock (short blocks to be turned into screwdriver handles) was fed.

When the hopper was filled with blocks (18 or 20 altogether) a spring or safety catch near the base of the hopper was pressed down by the weight of the blocks, and a mechanical arm then drew the bottommost block along a flat surface to…