Claim of Hoffman v. New York Central Railroad

The employer and self-insurer appeals from an award made to claimant for 100 per cent permanent loss of vision of the left eye. The injury was received when he fell on a concrete sidewalk, as he was crossing the employer’s premises to the building where he worked, striking his head and sustaining the injuries that caused the loss. The walk was covered with ice and sleet. 1 •

While possibly the Board might have found that the fall was due to dizziness, they did not, but rather that claimant fell while engaged in the regular course of his employment, striking his head, and that the injuries…