Hurley's Case
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Certification to the Superior Court under the provisions of the workmen’s compensation act of a decision of the Industrial Accident Board awarding compensation to Patrick Hurley for injuries received by him on September 9,1919, found by the board to have arisen out of and in the course of his employment by Worcester Gas Light Company. Material facts found by a single member of the board and affirmed by the board are described in the opinion.
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Certification to the Superior Court under the provisions of the workmen’s compensation act of a decision of the Industrial Accident Board awarding compensation to Patrick Hurley for injuries received by him on September 9,1919, found by the board to have arisen out of and in the course of his employment by Worcester Gas Light Company. Material facts found by a single member of the board and affirmed by the board are described in the opinion. In the Superior Court the case was heard by Lawton, J., by whose order a decree was entered in accordance with the decision of the Industrial Accident…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The claimant had occasion, in the course of his work at the Worcester Gas Light Company’s works, to go from the blower room to the forge to get some bars. To go to the forge the natural course was to leave the blower room, go down the stairs, out into and across the yard and enter another building. He needed a raincoat, which he found on a beam. He stepped out on the beam, got his coat and put it on. The beam “was connecting the two blower rooms;” he made an effort to walk along the beam, which was about a foot wide and about a foot thick, for perhaps twenty feet, and stepped…
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