Oklahoma Power Water Co. v. State Ind. Comm

3 Citing cases

  1. In re Greenwood

    1957 OK 257 (Okla. 1958)   Cited 4 times

    in Beatrice Creamery Co. v. State Industrial Commission, supra, had been modified by Pemberton Bakery v. State Industrial Commission, 180 Okla. 446, 70 P.2d 98, and held a deliveryman on a route delivering for a creamery was engaged in hazardous employment within the meaning of the Workmen's Compensation Law. Petitioner disagrees with the rule therein announced and argues that Beatrice Creamery Co. v. State Industrial Commission, supra, is still the law and authority for the rule that a deliveryman for a creamery cannot be awarded compensation as an employee engaged in hazardous employment. A discussion of the cases subsequent to the opinion in the Pemberton Bakery v. State Industrial Commission, supra, and relied upon in Allen v. State Industrial Commission, supra, will be helpful. Beatrice Creamery Co. v. State Industrial Commission, supra, has been cited in Klein v. State Industrial Commission, 181 Okla. 395, 74 P.2d 386; Chatham v. Arrow Drilling Co., 183 Okla. 243, 80 P.2d 944; Oklahoma Power Water Co. v. State Industrial Commission, 184 Okla. 447, 87 P.2d 969; W.H. Butcher Packing Co. v. Hixon, 189 Okla. 700, 119 P.2d 1019; Renner v. Board of Com'rs of Lincoln County, 195 Okla. 400, 158 P.2d 341; Preferred Accident Ins. Co. of N.Y. v. Van Dusen, supra; Dalton Barnard Hardware Co. v. Gates, 203 Okla. 268, 220 P.2d 249; and Fetteroff v. State Industrial Commission, 207 Okla. 77, 247 P.2d 505. In Renner v. Board of Com'rs of Lincoln County, supra, claimant was employed by the highway department of that county. He was sent by a member of the Board of County Commissioners to terrace a farm with a power driven grader.

  2. Preferred Accident Ins. Co. of N.Y. v. Van Dusen

    202 Okla. 124 (Okla. 1949)   Cited 11 times

    If the construction of the building was incidental to and connected with the hazardous business, the fact that it was remote from the place where such business was conducted was immaterial. Coon v. Morton, 189 Okla. 40, 113 P.2d 192; Allen v. State Industrial Commission, 183 Okla. 585, 83 P.2d 808; Oklahoma Power Water Co. v. State Industrial Commission, 184 Okla. 447, 87 P.2d 969. Award sustained.

  3. State Highway Dept. v. Allentharp

    182 P.2d 754 (Okla. 1947)   Cited 3 times

    We have on different occasions held that where an employee is engaged in manual and mechanical labor connected with and incident to a business defined as hazardous by the Workmen's Compensation Act, such employee comes within and is protected by the act. Wilson Co. v. Musgrave, 180 Okla. 246, 68 P.2d 846; Oklahoma Power Water Co. v. State Industrial Commission, 184 Okla. 447, 87 P.2d 969. In the case of Board of Commssioners of Okmulgee County v. State, 83 Okla. 48, 201 P. 998, we held that an employee who sustains an injury while engaged in hauling water for a steam engine used in pulling a road grader in the construction of a public highway was engaged in a hazardous employment within the meaning of the Workmen's Compensation Act.