Claim of Nidds v. Sterling Ceiling & Lathing Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Sterling Ceiling and Lathing Company and another, from an award and decision of the State Industrial Commission, entered in the office of said Commission on the 26th day of September, 1919, and also from the award and decision, as modified, entered in the office of said Commission on the 8th day of June, 1920.
1Opinion of the Court
Kiley, J.:
On June 18, 1917, claimant was injured while at work for the employer in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was a metal lather; his average daily wage was 16. He was walking along a partition wall in the building, slightly higher than his head, when a couple of the tile became detached and fell .onto his head. This is taken from his first claim for compensation and is dated June 19, 1917. On December 20, 1917, he filed a second claim in which he says his scalp was lacerated. The attending physician, under date of April 25, 1919, made a report to the same effect making the wound two and one-half…
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