Mt. Olive & Staunton Coal Co. v. Industrial Commission

The circuit court of Macoupin county set aside an award of the Industrial Commission in favor of plaintiff in error, John Sitko, on account of injuries received by him while in the employ of defendant in error, the Mt. Olive and Staunton Coal Company. The cause is before us on writ of error.

Sitko was in the employ of the coal company as a sulphur picker. His employment required him to stand alongside a boom and pick sulphur and other impurities from coal as it came out of the mine chutes and was loaded into railroad cars. The mine tipple is located at Williamson, in Macoupin county, adjacent…