Matter of Shearer v. Niagara Falls Power Co.

The State Industrial Board has found, and the Appellate Division has unanimously affirmed the decision, that “ on June 8, 1923, while the said Wm. A. Shearer was engaged in the regular course of his employment, and while working for his employer, at his employer’s plant at Buffalo Avenue Bridge, Niagara Falls, New York, where the same passes over the hydraulic canal, and while engaged in taking down a bridge thereat, and while up on said bridge on a girder, he lost his balance and in so doing he fell, and on his way down struck a scaffolding and then fell into the water, and he thereupon…