Claim of Brooks v. Semet Solvay Division

Appeal by the employer and its carrier from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. On December 21, 1954 the claimant injured his left thumb in the course of his employment. He reported the injury to his foreman and the employer’s gateman, who was authorized to furnish first aid to injured employees, put something on the thumb and bandaged it. The claimant lost no time from work but finally because the thumb continued to bother him he consulted his own physician on March 21, 1957. He thereafter told his foreman about the thumb and that he had had it X-rayed. A report of the first-aid…