Claim of Trgo v. Harris Structural Steel Corp.

Appeal by a self-insured employer from a determination of the Workmen’s Compensation Board which reversed the decision of the Referee and awarded claimant 50% partial disability with compensation payments to continue. On June 17, 1955 while employed as a painter by appellant, claimant fell from a scaffold a distance of about 40 feet to the ground. As a result of the fall, he sustained physical injuries consisting of a fracture of the left acetabulum, concussion of the brain, contusions of the left thorax and abdomen and lacerations of the chin and right arm. He was hospitalized for a period…