Anderson v. Pittsburgh Coal Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action against the Pittsburgh Coal Company and Michael Ladzinski in the district court for St. Louis county to recover $20,275, for personal injuries received while in the employ of defendant coal company and working in the hold of a vessel loaded with coal, upon which vessel its co-defendant was employed as hatch tender.
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Action against the Pittsburgh Coal Company and Michael Ladzinski in the district court for St. Louis county to recover $20,275, for personal injuries received while in the employ of defendant coal company and working in the hold of a vessel loaded with coal, upon which vessel its co-defendant was employed as hatch tender. The negligence .alleged was that defendants carelessly neglected to give plaintiff warning of the contemplated act of dropping the coal bucket and neglected to give him any opportunity to escape therefrom but negligently signalled the hoister to drop the bucket upon the…
1Opinion of the CourtJaggard, J.
Plaintiff and respondent, a coal heaver, was engaged in unloading defendant’s boat, loaded with coal. Clam shells, or buckets, four feet wide and seven feet long when closed, were lowered into and raised out of hatchways by means of wire cables running over sheaves at the end of booms which were projected over the vessel. The boat being unloaded was provided with an upper and a middle deck. At the time of the accident here involved the coal was being taken from the hold. The machinery was operated by a man known as a “hoister,” who received, from a man on deck known as a “hatch tender,”…
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