Amerada Petroleum Corp. v. Lovelace

The parties will be referred to as petitioner and claimant. On the 3rd day of March, 1937, Virgil F. Lovelace sustained an accidental injury to his arm, bacb, and head while employed as a pumper for the Amerada Petroleum Corporation. He was adjusting a board from the top of a 210-barrel stocb tanb across a four-inch line running from the settling tanb to the stocb tanb, and had crawled out on the board to put on a Sbinner pipe joint clamp, when the connections brobe and he fell to the ground, a distance of approximately 15 feet. The employer reported the accident on Form 2 and stated that the…