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This petition to review an award of the Industrial Accident Commission (Workmen’s Compensation Act, Stats. 1917, p. 831) discloses that Charles A. Daugherty, the applicant before the commission, was employed by petitioner, a general building contractor. During the course of his employment Daugherty was assigned the duty of passing lumber from the ground floor to a fellow employee on the roof. To' do so he stood upon a scaffold in the center of the building against which the lumber to be passed was placed, one end resting against the scaffold. While so engaged the scaffold collapsed, injuring applicant.

The scaffold upon which applicant was standing at the time of his injury was from eight to ten feet high, the platform of which was made of two planks, one end being supported by what is known among builders as a “horse”, and the other end supported by a built-up structure of two uprights, a horizontal cross-piece on top of three cross-braces.

The first application filed by the injured employee for compensation was on December 12, 1931, against his employer, the petitioner herein, and the insurance carrier. A hearing was had and an award made granting applicant compensation until…