Claim of Kassoff v. F. W. Woolworth Co.

The employer appeals from an award of double compensation under section 14-a of the Workmen’s Compensation Law. This section provides for such an award if the injured employee is a minor under eighteen years of age and is “ employed, permitted or suffered to work in violation of any provision of the labor law or in violation of any rule heretofore or hereafter adopted by the board of standards and appeals ”. The employee in question, who was sixteen years of age at the time, was employed under a vacation permit as a “ stock clerk ’ ’, and was injured while lowering a manually operated lift or…