Pressed Steel Tank Co. v. Industrial Commission

Nikolich had been employed by the Pressed Steel Tank Company for about sixteen years handling and helping in the lifting of tanks weighing between four hundred seventy and four hundred seventy-five pounds. On March 11, 1944, while so employed with a tank, Nikolich experienced a severe pain in the lower part of his back He was disabled for three weeks and thereafter returned to work but was never free from symptoms. Nikolich had sustained a somewhat similar back injury in 1938. At that time, he had been laid up a month but returned to lighter work for a short time. He then resumed his regular…