The issue raised is the lack of substantial evidence to support a finding of causal relationship. On Thursday, September 14, 1950, claimant and a companion were at the bottom of a twenty-five foot ditch, receiving steel rods passed down from the street level. The rods, thirty feet long, three-fourths inch in diameter, and weighing about seventy pounds, were "eased" into the ditch over a crossbeam. The slender rods had a tendency to whip. The companion, holding one end of...
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