Claim of Pudsey v. New York Central Railroad

This is an appeal by the Special Fund for Reopened Cases from findings and decisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Board dated July 15, 1947, and August 11, 1947, awarding the claimant compensation for total disability to December 5, 1946, totaling $6,878.85, with payments to continue. The claimant was employed as a machinist by the Boston and Albany Railroad Company, which was succeeded by the New York Central Railroad Company, at its railroad yard at Selkirk, New York. On March 15, 1930, he was assigned to repair a broken pipe on a locomotive which had been taken to the enginehouse in the…