Legal Opinion
Claim of Smith v. United States Trucking Corp.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 14, 1978PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal from a decision of the Workers' Compensation Board, filed December 14, 1977. The facts in this case are not disputed. Claimant was employed as a rigging chauffeur and sustained injuries after he slipped and fell on the sidewalk during his lunch break on January 7, 1977. On that date, at approximately 11:30 a.m., claimant’s foreman suggested that they go for lunch and discuss the method they would use for installing a particularly heavy piece of equipment. While claimant, the foreman and a coworker walked down the street away from the job site and discussed the problem, claimant fell…
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