Read the full judgment text of DCCJ 004363/1969 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 13 February 1970.
1. This action arises out of a factory accident. The plaintiff, a lady now in her middle thirties, was employed by the defendant to operate an electric press which punches holes in pieces of metal destined to become the bases of kerosene hurricane lamps. The system of work on such machines is that the operator, sitting in front of them, feeds in pieces of metal, technically known as "founts" and resembling small, cheap tin bowls. With a bamboo stick she pushes them along a slide in the front par