State ex rel. Palmer v. Webster

How courts have described this case

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• while awards for violations of specific safety requirements are penal insofar as they affect employers, they are compensatory insofar as the employee is concerned because the award goes directly to the injured employee, not to the state as a fine
• Discussing possible preemption by Federal safety standards

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).