SALYERS v. G. & P. COAL COMPANY


467 S.W.2d 115 (1971)

Elzie SALYERS, Appellant, v. G. & P. COAL COMPANY and Workmen's Compensation Board of Kentucky, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

May 7, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. B. Fields, Hazard, for appellant.

Craft & Haynes, Hazard, for G. & P. Coal Co.


NEIKIRK, Judge.

Elzie Salyers, a sixty-one-year-old mine foreman for G. & P. Coal Company, filed with the Workmen's Compensation Board a claim for compensation, which was denied. The Breathitt Circuit Court affirmed the order of the Board. It is from this judgment that Salyers appeals. We affirm.

The appellant, during a lunch break, climbed into a fifty- to sixty-foot coal chute of about 50% slope supposedly to punch out coal through the chute doors. The...

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