Thorson v. Carnegie Steel Co.
Thorson v. Carnegie Steel Co.
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The appellee, an employee of the Carnegie Steel Company, while walking on a crane track near the roof of the building in which he was working, was struck by a moving crane and sustained the injuries for which compensation is claimed in this action. While the jury might fairly have returned a verdict in favor of the defendant, neither the question of its negligence, nor that of the contributory negligence of the plaintiff, could, under all the evidence, have been taken from them. Testimony was properly admitted to show that, in performing the duty assigned to him, it was necessary for the appellee to be on the crane girder or track at the time he was injured. Shortly before, he had taken off a top sheet of an iron partition near the roof of the
No reversible error is set forth in tbe first assignment. The motion to strike out tbe testimony of Waldron was overruled, tbe court directing that it should stand for tbe time being. He subsequently came into court and asked to correct his testimony, and, having been permitted to do so, stated that be was mistaken in having testified as to the length of time tbe safety appliances
Tbe sixteen assignments are overruled and tbe judgment is affirmed.
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- Negligence — Master and servant — Contributory negligence— Failure to guard — Act of May %, 1905, P. L. 85%. In an action by an employee against a steel company to recover damages for injuries sustained through being struck by a moving crane while walking on the crane track near the roof of the building in which plaintiff was working, the ease is for the jury where there is evidence to show that it was necessary for the plaintiff to be on the crane girder or track at the time he was injured; that before he started he looked down the track and saw that the crane was not in motion and that no one was in the cage; that he was struck by the crane after walking ten or twelve feet on the track; that the general noise of the mill prevented plaintiff’s hearing the noise made by the crane as it approached him from the rear; that employees of the defendant company at times walked over the crane track; that it was the duty of the foreman in charge to give notice to the crane-man that the appellee would in all probability be on the crane girder or track, and that there should be a lookout for him; that the foreman fáiled to give such notice, and that the appellee had not been instructed as to the crane call whistles and the other signals used in the mill; and that although there were safety devices in use on cranes identical in construction with the one which ran over the plaintiff, there were none on it.