Fox v. Clearfield Wooden Ware Co.

Citations

• 211 Pa. 645
• 61 A. 245
• 1905 Pa. LEXIS 529

Syllabus

<p>Negligence—Master and servant—Contributory negligence—Machinery— Nonsidt.</p> <p>Where an employee without any necessity whatever leaves a safe position where he has been placed at work, and while in a position where he ought not to be comes in contact with a projecting bolt on a shaft and is injured, he cannot recover from his employer.</p> <p>The employer does not guarantee his servant against any and all accidents that may happen within the building, if the latter chooses to put himself in contact with machinery with which his duty does not call him to meddle, or to operate.</p>