Big Horn County v. Iles

Blume, Justice.

Walter F. Iles, about 43 years of age, hereinafter called the workman, was injured on August 16, 1937, while in the employ of Big Horn County, this state, by being struck in the small of the back by a heavy road bulldozer of a caterpillar, weighing from 3000 to 3500 pounds, which dropped some 16 inches while the employee was in a stooped position. He had what Dr. Parisi describes as a comminuted fracture of the inferior ramus of the left pubic bone, a comminuted fracture being one in which more than one piece of the bone is broken. This ramus, as explained by Dr. Gorder, is a…