Claim of Putnam v. New York State Department

Appeal by employer and carrier from a board decision awarding compensation benefits. The claimant, a laborer for the Department of Public Works, reported regularly for work at a garage in the early morning. It was customary for the claimant and his coemployees to be transported in a truck to the site of the job. It was also customary to stop work and to return by the same method of transportation to the garage to arrive at 4 o’clock in the afternoon. Traveling time indisputably was part of the work day. On the day of the accident the foreman instructed the men to quit and they deposited their…