Claim of Frisbie v. Boffer Business Service

Appeal 'by the self-insured employer from an award of death benefits. Decedent was employed as a millwright at the employer’s Tarrytown plant. He reported for work at midnight and his foreman assigned him and another employee to a job reinforcing the dueo oven on the roof of the plant. Decedent appeared to be normal at that time. A short time later decedent left the site of the particular job to which he had been assigned. Shortly after six o’clock that morning decedent was found unconscious, lying on his back, on the main floor of the plant, immediately under and 40 or 50 feet below an open…