Roundtree v. Ford Motor Co.

This is an appeal from an award of the department of labor and industry where upon review of plaintiff’s petition for further compensation the award of $5 per week made by the deputy commissioner was reversed and compensation denied. Plaintiff has appealed.

While working in the plant of the defendant company plaintiff sustained an injury in the following manner. A billet or bar of steel eight inches square, approximately 10 feet in length and weighing about 1,800 pounds, rolled or fell against plaintiff’s right foot and injured it at a point between the ankle and the heel. An agreement for…