Greene's Case

A claim for compensation dated December 27,1929, was filed in which the date of injury to the claimant was given as August 17, 1929, and the cause of injury: “while cleaning sewers with hot water and lye . . . [the claimant] received severe burns” upon both legs. The single member of the Industrial Accident Board found that the claimant “was sentenced to the Charles Street Jail for three months to work out a fine of $125 ”; that when he had been there about ten days he was sent to the women’s side of the prison to clean a sewer and fell into boiling water and lye receiving a severe injury;…