Claim of Scoville v. Tolhurst Machine Works
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Tolhurst Machine Works and another, from a decision and award of the State Industrial Commission, made on the 2d day of March, 1920, and entered in the office of said Commission on the 11th day of March, 1920, rescinding and modifying certain decisions and awards heretofore made, and granting a modified award in favor of the claimant.
1Opinion of the Court
Kiley, J.:
The employer was engaged in the business of machinery and woodworking at Troy, N. Y., and had been so engaged for several years prior to September 14, 1917. The claimant had worked for this concern for four or five years before that date; among the commodities manufactured was some kind of metal brushes requiring the combination of strands of wire closely knit or wound together so as to require drawing with pinchers held in the hand. The work with the hands, when and while so engaged was strenuous; constant pressure with the hand upon the prongs or handles of the pinchers or nippers…
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