Bentley Bros. v. Industrial Commission

Herbert T. Childs fell from a scaffold upon which he was working while engaged in painting the steel work in a garage as an employee of Bentley Brothers, Inc. The scaffold consisted of a two-inch plank, which was fourteen inches wide. One end of it was supported by a trellis or girder, the other by a step-ladder. It was about ten or twelve feet above the floor of the garage. Childs and another workman had been working upon this scaffold for several hours. They could paint only a space of four or five feet in width without moving the scaffold, which they were required to do every hour, or…