Claim of Dyke v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.

Appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed March 14, 1969, which found a continuing causally related disability and awarded compensation benefits at the temporary rate of $40 per week from April 19, 1968 to July 15, 1968, with instructions to the carrier to continue payments at said rate. Claimant, a young man employed at a canning and food processing plant, sustained a back injury on March 14, 1967 while loading empty 50-gallon drums1 onto a truck. The right to compensation was not controverted and, previously, benefits were paid at the total disability rate for divers…