Claim of Cioffi v. William Crow Construction Co.

Appeal from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. Claimant, employed as a carpenter, in January, 1947, while carrying a keg of nails in the course of employment fell and sustained a tom muscle of the left side of his back, contusions and tenderness of the chest and pain and tenderness of the left shoulder and back. Awards of partial disability to March 20, 1951, were paid; this appeal is concerned with an award of *1077partial disability after that date which is based on a medical opinion that claimant suffers from a traumatic conversion hysteria. The conversion hysteria is…