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Southern Pac. Co. v. Industrial Commission

87 P.2d 811, 96 Utah 510, 1939 Utah LEXIS 32
CourtUtah Supreme Court
DecidedMarch 3, 1939
DocketNo. 6052.
StatusPublished
Cited by3 cases

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Southern Pac. Co. v. Industrial Commission, 87 P.2d 811, 96 Utah 510, 1939 Utah LEXIS 32 (Utah 1939).

Opinion

WOLFE, Justice.

This is an application to review an order of the Industrial Commission awarding death benefits to defendant Laura Southwick, on account of the death of her husband, William David Southwick. The Southern Pacific Company, petitioner herein, is a self insurer under the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Rev. St. 1933, 42-1-1 et seq.).

Southwick was employed by the Southern Pacific Company as a boiler maker. On the morning of February 2, 1938, he was sent to procure a sheet of metal from the iron shop. Sometime later his body was found by a fellow workman. He was found in a standing position pressed by two of the metal sheets against the south wall of the building. About four feet north of the south wall of the building, and running parallel thereto, is a low partition wall against *513 which the sheets of metal leaned. The south wall is constructed of heavy timber vertical studs on the outside of which is nailed a cover of thin corrugated sheet iron or tin. Southwick’s body was found between two of the upright studs and pinned against the corrugated wall by the two metal sheets which were resting against his chest and against two upright studs. His back was up against and bulging out the south tin wall of the building. His head was slumped down over the metal sheets, his hands by his sides. The top of the metal sheets where it came in contact with the body was about four feet high, pressing directly across Southwick’s chest. His body was not slumped to one side or the other but was in a fairly upright position. We insert *514 here a reproduction of a photograph taken of another person who assumed as nearly as possible the exact position in which Southwick was found. A glance at it will be more informative than a page of description.

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