The Law of Personal Injuries in Mines: Including All Character of Personal Injuries, Received in and about Mines and Quarries, Treating of Injuries Received by Employees; Actions by Third Persons for Their Negligence and Injuries from the Negligence of Independent Contractors |
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Page 392 - When personal injury is caused to an employee who is himself in the exercise of due care and diligence at the time: 1. By reason of any defect in the condition of the ways, works, machinery, or plant, connected with or used in the business of the employer...
Page 256 - Assumption of risk is a term of the contract of employment, express or implied from the circumstances of the employment, by which the servant agrees that dangers of injury obviously incident to the discharge of the servant's •duty shall be at the servant's risk.
Page 515 - When young persons without experience are employed to work with dangerous machines, it is the duty of the employer to give suitable instructions as to the manner of using...
Page 254 - But in truth the mere relation of the master and the servant never can imply an obligation on the part of the master to take more care of the servant than he may reasonably be expected to do of himself.
Page 69 - Where, after the commencement of this act, personal injury is caused to a workman (1) By reason of any defect in the condition of the ways, works, machinery, or plant connected with or used in the business of the employer...
Page 504 - In the case of young persons, it is the duty of the employer to take notice of their age and ability, and to use ordinary care to protect them from risks which they cannot properly appreciate, and to which they should not be exposed.
Page 70 - The owner, agent or operator of any coal mine shall keep a sufficient supply of timber, when required, to be used as props, so that the workmen may, at all times, be able to properly secure the said workings from caving in ; and it shall be the duty of the owner, agent or operator to send down all such props when required.
Page 399 - Indeed, we think it may be laid down as a legal principle that, in all occupations which are attended with great and unusual danger, there must be used all appliances readily attainable known to science for the prevention of accidents, and that the neglect to provide such readily attainable appliances will be regarded as proof of culpable negligence.
Page 591 - C to provide the necessary scaffolding, for which he was to receive 40/. irrespective of his salary, B to furnish the requisite materials, including lights. One of the poles of the scaffold rested on a highway, and owing to the want of sufficient light to warn the...
Page 253 - Contributory negligence, in Its legal signification, is such an act or omission on the part of a plaintiff amounting to a want of ordinary care, as, concurring or co-operating with the negligent act of the defendant, ¡sa proximate cause or occasion of the injury complained of.