The Board of Trade Labour Gazette Volume 13

Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... bricklayer, that it was no part of his work to deal with girders, and that the accident therefore did not arise out of or in the course of his empl: )y_ment.----Nt'c/tolls v. Bishop, Court of Appeal, May 9th, 1905. 0N on In on Anonr ENGINEERING WORK. Amongst the employments to which the Act applies is employment on or in or about engineering work. " Engineering work " includes any work of construction or alteration or repair of a railroad; a railroad has been held to include tramway. A company made a contract to take up an existing horse tramway in a town. and to lay down new rails, &c., for an electric tramway. The rails were brought to the town by railway, and when unloaded were stacked and stored in a part of the railway company's yard, by arrangement between the contractors and the railway company. From this yard they were taken by the contractors direct to the streets as they were required. A man who was employed by the contractors at the railway yard in moving the rails rom the trucks and stacking them, was injured whileso employed. At the time of the accident the only work which had been done on the streets was the taking up of part cf the old tramway at a point about 7oo yards from the railway yard. The injured man was awarded compensation by a County Court judge. The Court of Appeal, however, reversing this decision, eld that the man's employment was not on or in or about an engineering work, as it was no part of the contract that the rails should be stacked in the railway yard, the stacking of the rails there was no part of the work which the contractors had undertaken to execute, and the railway yard was not part of the physical area of the engineering work.--Baek v. Dick, Kerr 6 Co., Ltd., Court of...