Schein v. Feder

This action is brought under the Employers’ Liability Law to recover for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff, who, while he was in defendant’s employ as a butcher, cut the thumb of his left hand. The accident happened while plaintiff was cutting a shoulder bone of beef which was held against a chuck pin that had been driven into the chopping block. The pin came out of the block and the saw which plaintiff was using slipped, with the resultant injury for which he sues.

It was established by the evidence that at the time of the accident the defendant had not complied with the Workmen’s…