Claim of Carpenter v. Sibley, Lindsay & Curr Co.

Appeal from a Workmen’s Compensation Board’s decision dated April 6, 1949, modifying its prior decision by upholding a scheduled award in claimant’s favor for the total loss of the sight of her right eye occasioned by retinal detachment, which based the award upon the result of accidental injury arising out of and in the course of employment, instead of an occupational disease as theretofore found. There is evidence that the physical efforts incident to the usual course of claimant’s employment was a predisposing cause of the detachment of the retina of claimant’s long-standing myopic right…