McDonald v. Burden Iron Co.

Van Kirk, J.:

The award was made for thirty-one and one-fifth weeks’ disability at eleven dollars and seventy-five cents per week, the average weekly wage of claimant being fixed at eighteen dollars and thirty cents. The one question raised on this appeal is whether or not the Board properly computed the amount of the weekly wage.

The claimant, Thomas McDonald, was injured on June 2, 1922, in the course of his employment while worldng for the Burden Iron Company as a puddler. The Burden plant is not generally in operation during the entire year. During the year preceding his injury the claimant…