[DOWNLOAD] "Lazarz's Case" by Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts " eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Lazarz's Case
- Author : Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
- Release Date : January 25, 1936
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 57 KB
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LUMMUS, Justice. The employee, a boy of sixteen, lost a finger in the gears of a machine. The gears were completely enclosed in a large solid metal gear case, sometimes called box or cage, with a sliding door opened by a knob. When first employed, eight days before the injury, as a sweeper and cleaner, the employee received printed rules for the prevention of accidents, and promised in writing to read and obey them. He signed also the following statement: 'I am familiar with the rule prohibiting removal of gear cages and cleaning gears in motion. * * *' He was shown an open gear case, and was told of the danger that lay within. On the day of the injury he was told to polish the gear cases on the outside with a white liquid polish and a handful of waste, and was again warned not to open the gear cases. The inside of the gear cases was constantly splashed with oil from the gears, and was never cleaned. The employee testified that some of the polish got into a crevice in one of the gear cases, and that in the attempt to wipe it out completely he intentionally opened the gear case, and was hurt. The board were not required to believe this testimony, and there is nothing to show that they did so.