Fronk v. Ajax Drilling Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hopkins, J.:

The action was one for compensation. The plaintiff recovered and the defendants appeal.

The plaintiff was a driller and tool dresser employed by the defendants. It was plaintiff’s duty to heat drilling tools for sharpening over a forge which was heated with fuel oil and steam. On May 14, 1925, while lighting the forge for heating the drilling tools and while engaged in the regular course of his employment, the oil forge exploded and blew burning oil over the front of his clothing. He jumped into a slush pond near by and extinguished the…