MILWAUKEE FORGE v. ILHR DEPARTMENT

No. 425.

66 Wis.2d 428 (1975)

225 N.W.2d 476

MILWAUKEE FORGE, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY, LABOR & HUMAN RELATIONS and another, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided February 4, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant there was a brief by Peck, Brigden, Petajan, Lindner, Honzik & Peck, S. C., attorneys, and Barton M. Peck and Albert H. Petajan of counsel, all of Milwaukee, and oral argument by Gary A. Marsack of Milwaukee.

For the respondents the cause was argued by Lowell E. Nass, assistant attorney general, with whom on the brief was Robert W. Warren, attorney general.


HANLEY, J.

The sole issue presented on appeal is whether an employer is subject to the provisions of sec. 102.57, Stats., for violating the safe-place statute where the employee who was injured violated the employer's safety rules.

The circuit court, in its decision of March 26, 1973, concluded that there was sufficient credible evidence to support a finding of a violation of the safe-place statute, sec. 101.06,...

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