From the Richmond Dispatch, 9/22/1887, p. 1, c. 4

Suit Against the Tredegar Company

Suit was brought yesterday in the Circuit Court against the Tredegar Company for $80,000 by Aleck Mann, whose thirteen-year-old son was killed on the 19th of September while working at a machine in the Tredegar Works. At the time one of his legs was broken in three places, and his hipbone was crushed and driven into his body.

The machine, it is claimed, weighed three or four tons, and rested on the ground unfastened, it is alleged. It worked by a pulley from a shaft, and the belt getting out of order, jerked the machine up and turned it over on the boy.

The Tredegar Company sent Mr. Mann a check for $30 to pay the funeral expenses, but it was refused.

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