Claim of Kerchik v. La Fontaine Novelty Co.

At the time of claimant’s accident, while at work in a hat factory, she was fifteen years of age. She had been working for twelve dollars a week. Taking into consideration the fact that under normal conditions her wages would be expected to increase, the State Industrial Board has determined her average weekly wages to be .twenty-five dollars a week. (Workmen’s Compensation Law, § 14, subd. 5.) There is no evidence to justify that finding. The only employee who received twenty-five dollars a week was a man, who ran a picking machine and it had always been a man’s job to run that machine.…