Guerrieri v. Industrial Insurance Commission

Citations

• 84 Wash. 266
• 146 P. 608
• 1915 Wash. LEXIS 781

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Workmen’s Compensation Act — “Extra-hazardous” Employments — Statutes—Construction. The operation of a passenger or freight elevator is not an extra-hazardous employment entitling the operator to compensation for injuries within the definition of the workmen’s compensation act, 3 Rem. & Bal. Code, §§ 6604-2, 6604-3, which includes “factories, mills . . . breweries, elevators, wharves, docks . . .” etc., since the context and setting of the words indicates a legislative intent to cover classes of business rather than particular pieces of machinery, and the use of the words “passenger and freight elevators” in § 6604-4, under the classification of “construction work,” shows that the statute means those engaged in the manufacture or construction of freight and passenger elevators; especially in view of the fact that the schedule of rates to be paid does not specifically cover passenger or freight elevators, but does include the operation of grain elevators.</p>