United States Steel Corporation v. Donna

CROCKETT, Chief Justice: Plaintiff United States Steel seeks reversal of an order of the Industrial Commission which awarded
death benefits to the dependents of Paul C. Draper, based on the finding that his fatal heart attack was an accident which
occurred in the course of his employment at the plaintiff's Geneva Steel Plant. 1 Mr. Draper was a "hot car" operator. The car is driven into position to receive molten coke from an oven, then transported
to a quenching station. There, water is sprayed on to cool it. Then the car coveys the coke and dumps it, and repeats that
process. At about 1:30 a.m. on November 29, 1977, as Draper drove his "hot car" into a quencher, his attention was drawn to
some commotion about 100 yards away at a settling pond. He backed his car out of the quencher, dumped his load, and pulled
his car up to the next oven to be loaded. He said to his fellow employee Robert Godfrey: