Hipner v. Stuart

Plaintiff was á core maker employed by defendant. Too, he prepared and dampened the sand for the molds and when the metal was run from the cupola to the ladles and from thence to the molds he assisted in the foundry room. He was removing iron clamps from the molds after the metal had been poured. He testified that he inserted into the gate box of a mold the end of a cold rusty clamp and that an explosion followed, injuring him; that his purpose in so doing was to learn if the metal had cooled sufficiently for removal of the clamps; that defendant’s foreman had directed him so to do; and that…