Read the full judgment text of DCEC 000148/1983 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment.
1. This applicant, a coolie, fell from a lorry whilst he was helping to load it with bags of salt being transferred by crane from a lighter to the lorry. He described to me how a bag from he 5th layer of bags - standing at about a man's height on the lorry - fell towards him, how he tried to catch it with his hook, but in view of its weight he was unable to control it and instead he fell from his position on the vehicle to the ground. He sustained a fractured wrist and possibly a fractured humer