Novak v. Industrial Accident Board

Mike Novak was employed by the Davis-Daly Copper Company as a “hardrock” miner. He had been working but seven or eight days when, on April 13, 1923, while pursuing his employment and in the course thereof, certain rock and loose earth fell from the roof of the tunnel in which he was working, striking him on the left shoulder and arm and breaking the arm between the elbow and wrist. Novak was immediately taken to the Murray hospital, with which his employer had the usual contract, where an X-ray was taken of the arm and a cast applied. His employer made its report of the accident as required…