Claim of Jeffreyes v. Charles H. Sager Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Charles H. Sager Company and another, from an award of the State Industrial Commission, entered in the office of said Commission on the 24th day of January, 1921.
1Opinion of the Court
H. T. Kellogg, J.:
The claimant was employed by a photographer in the development of photographic plates. It was necessary for *447her, more than 500 times each day, to dip plates, held in her left hand, into a poisonous chemical solution. Having performed this work continuously for more than a week her fingers became red and swollen. She then went to a physician who gave her treatment. Eventually the end of the little finger of her left hand became mummified, gangrene set in, and an amputation thereof becoming necessary, was performed. The pathological cause of her injuries was the contraction of…
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