Diehl v. American Oil Co.

Appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed December *71721, 1973. While he was driving a tractor-trailer on the Long Island Expressway, claimant, a fuel oil truck driver, ran out of gas. A mechanic from claimant’s plant was sent in a pickup truck with gasoline to assist him. When the mechanic started to pour gas into the tractor, there was an explosion and flames covered the front of claimant’s truck. Claimant jumped out and with his jacket extinguished the flames in the tractor, the pickup truck and the mechanic who was also on fire. Claimant helped the mechanic into the…