Bonaduce v. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.

Opinion by

Hirt, J.,

This is a workmen’s compensation case; claimant had been in the employ of Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation since 1951; he was promoted on October 1954 to the job of “auxiliary engineer”. His ordinary duties consisted in “reading charts, placing charts, wiping, light work on engines and reporting pressures” to his superior. We will refer to these units of machinery as engines, as they are called in this record, although they in fact probably were compressors. Claimant’s duties also included keeping “Station 20”, which housed the machinery, clean and in order. The…