Claim of Geiger v. Gotham Can Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, The Gotham Can Company and another, from an award of the State Industrial Commission, filed in the New York city office of said Commission on the 8th day of June, 1916.
1Opinion of the Court
Lyon, J.:
In May, 1916, the claimant was employed as an operator upon a press used for shaping covers in a tin can manufacturing establishment in the borough of Brooklyn, city of New York. By the accidental repeating of the press the second finger of her right hand was caught, and as the State Industrial Commission has found, “ She received a traumatic amputation of one-eighth of an inch of the bone, same being a substantial portion of the hone.” An award was made for the loss of one-half of the middle finger of the right hand.
The sole ground of appeal by the employer and the insurance carrier…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- In Re the Claims of PetrieNew York Court of Appeals · 1915
- Matter of Grammici v. . ZinnNew York Court of Appeals · 1916
- Claim of Mockler v. HawkesAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1916
- In re the Claim of PetrieAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1915
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