Thompson v. State Compensation Commissioner

Riley, Judge :

Red Jacket Coal Corporation prosecutes this appeal from an order of the workmen’s compensation appeal board, dated December 11, 1948, which reversed an order of the state compensation commissioner refusing claimant, Stanford Thompson, compensation, and held that claimant was entitled to compensation benefits.

Claimant Thompson, who had been an employee of Red Jacket Coal Corporation for more than four years prior to May 9,1947, the date claimant was injured as the result of being rolled between the top of an empty mine car and a cross-timber or “cross-collar”. The mine car was…