Bethlehem-Sparrows Point Shipyard, Inc. v. Hempfield

This record contains four appeals, each of which is from a judgment affirming an award of the State Industrial Accident Commission to a workman accidentally injured in the course of his employment. Three of the. workmen sustained an injury to a finger, and the fourth sustained an injury to a toe.

The first appellant, Mike Hempfield, an employee of Bethlehem-Sparrows Point Shipyard, Inc., sustained a crushing injury to the distal phalanx of the second finger of his right hand. The first report of the physician showed that he sustained a fracture of the distal phalanx and exposure of the tuft,…