Legal Opinion
Strand v. Harris Structural Steel Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 8, 1924PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Van Kirk, J.:
The employer was an erector of structural steel. The employee, Frank Strand, was an ironworker, receiving fifty dollars per week. He was injured January 17, 1923, and died from his injuries January 19, 1923, leaving a widow and three children. The accident happened at Seventy-first street and Broadway, New York city, on the sixth floor of the building being erected. He was heating rivets at a forge on a scaffold eight planks wide. He brought some wood to the scaffold and built a fire in a mortar tub. He was not seen to bring the tub, but there was no use for it on the scaffold…
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