Claim of Buddenborg v. Gilman Construction Co. of Buffalo

Appeal from an award of 100 per cent loss of use of left eye. Claimant’s left eye was injured by a chip which flew from a piece of steel upon which he was working, on February 14, 1929. There was a hearing on March twentieth, and the case closed by the referee upon the ground that the disability did not last seven days. On October 29, 1932, claimant wrote the Board; a portion of the letter concerned another injury and a portion concerned the eye: “ I also got a steel chip in my left eye for which I got three treatments from the eye specialist, and I took his word for it that my eye was…