In re the Claim of Petrie
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the Oneida Steel Pulley Company and another from an award of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission, entered in the office of the said Commission on the 7th day of October, 1914.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
Thomas Petrie was at work for the Oneida Steel Pulley Company on the 10th day of July, 1914, and was engaged in operating a punch press. His fingers were caught between the punch and die in such a manner that the second finger of the right hand had to be amputated at the first joint. The third finger was injured so that the Commission has found as a fact that in “the amputation of the third finger about one-third of the bone of the distal phalange was cut off.” The only question arising upon this appeal is whether this injury to the third finger was such as to entitle the injured…
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