O'Neill v. Venango Manufacturing Co.

Citations

• 251 Pa. 182
• 96 A. 478
• 1915 Pa. LEXIS 653

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Master and servant — Factories—Elevators—Act of May 8, 1905, P. L. 858 — Gase for jury.</p> <p>Where in an action against a manufacturing company to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by an employee in a factory, there was evidence that while plaintiff was waiting at an unguarded elevator shaft for an elevator to descend, a heavy truck which had been moved to the shaft by a workman on the floor above, fell through the shaft, struck the floor of the descending elevator, and bounded upon plaintiff severely injuring him, and there was testimony to the effect that the accident could have been avoided if the shaft had been guarded by a cage, it was for the</p> <p>jury to determine whether defendant had complied with Section 12 of the Act of May 2, 1905, P. L. 352, requiring that elevator wells shall be properly and substantially enclosed or guarded, and a verdict and judgment for plaintiff were sustained.</p>