Claim of Craig v. Jefferson Auto Painting Co.

Appeals by an employer and its insurance carrier from decisions which awarded compensation benefits for disability due to injuries sustained by claimant when a coemployee threw in claimant’s eyes the contents of a can containing a chemical solution used in the employer’s automobile body repair shop. Claimant, employed as an automobile sander and polisher, was approached during working hours by the shop steward who “ wanted me and some Other fellow workers to tell a lie against the foreman '* * * that the foreman was stopping us from working.” Upon claimant’s refusal, the coemployee threatened…