Claim of Knight v. Ferguson
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Frank L. Ferguson, from an award of the State Industrial Commission, made on or about the 8th day of February, 1921.
1Opinion of the Court
Kiley, J.:
On May 26, 1919, the claimant was at work for appellant who was a contractor, operating at Jamaica, Long Island, N. Y. He was working at carpenter work, and received wages at the rate of sixty-eight cents an hour. On the day aforesaid he was shingling the eaves of a house and fell to the ground below. Such fall fractured the cervical vertebrae, resulting in a permanent bilateral deformity and involved the posterior thorax nerve which supplied serratus magnus muscle. This description means that fracturing the vertebrae in the back of the neck (spinal column) destroyed the nerve,…
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