Claim of Silverman v. Little West Manufacturing Co.

Appeal by the employer and its carrier from the original and two supplemental decisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. Claimant was employed as a production manager and cutter for a garment manufacturer. His duties required the lifting of cases of goods weighing between 100 and 300 pounds several times each day. Sometime in 1953 or 1954 while lifting a ease weighing about 250 pounds claimant experienced a pain in his lower right abdomen which thereafter recurred from time to time during the course of his work. He detected a swelling in the inguinal area. Some months later at the…