Greenberg v. Electric Boat Co.

In October, 1942, the plaintiff, while engaged in tearing down a wooden staging around a submarine at Electric Boat Company, was struck on the head by a plank measuring about 16 feet X 2y2 inches X 10 inches. The blow did not cause a laceration of the scalp but produced a lump. Plaintiff was not knocked down or rendered unconscious by the blow. He continued working, but two days later, his head still bothering him, he went to the company infirmary. The nurse in attendance looked at his head, felt the lump, made some comment and sent him away. Two weeks later, plaintiff again visited the…