Black Mountain Coal Corporation v. Humphrey

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Hobson

-Affirming.

Joe Humphrey was an employee of the Black Mountain Corporation, engaged in running a conveyor which moved the coal to the tipple. It was his duty to keep steam in the boiler and to look after the machinery of the conveyor, and put tar on the belt to keep it from slipping. No one was in the engine room but he. He dame to the door and was not seen any more for about ten minutes. When next seen he was dead, wound up in the wheel and the belt. He was lying between the wheel and the timber that the bearing of the wheel sets on, his head downward…