Claim of Mengele v. Liebmann Breweries, Inc.

Employer and its insurance carrier appeal from an award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, one member dissenting, which granted death benefits to the widow of a deceased brewery employee. Appellants contend that the fall which resulted in the employee’s death did not arise out of and in the course of his employment, was suicidal and not accidental.

The employer’s plant consisted of two buildings, identified in the record as Q- and H, which adjoined each other. Each was nine stories in height. A common stair well between them led to their roof through a door which was unlocked. A parapet of…