Fredd v. C. S. Garrett & Son Co.

Citations

• 240 Pa. 17
• 87 A. 301
• 1913 Pa. LEXIS 622

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Master and servant — Safe place to worJc — Guarding machinery.</p> <p>Plaintiff, employed to oil machinery in defendant’s mill, was injured while oiling the bearings of an exhaust fan. The fan was in an iron frame which occupied the upper half of a window which was reached from the outside by opening the lower sash which hung on hinges. In oiling the bearings plaintiff was required to stand on the sloping window ledge, to support himself by holding with one hand to the iron frame, and to reach upward and forward with his arm bent over a shaft arid pulley. His arm was struck by a belt and knocked against the revolving fan and injured. In an action to recover damages for the injuries so received, based upon the failure of defendant to afford plaintiff a safe place to work: Held, the court was correct in submitting to • the jury the question whether it was practicable, consistently with efficient use of the fan, to more effectively guard it or to provide for stopping it during the operation of oiling and a verdict and judgment in favor of the plaintiff should be sustained.</p>