Claim of Pioli v. Crouse-Hinds Co.

Appeal from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. Claimant is a molder. The employer is engaged in the business of making electrical parts. In the work claimant used a ladle attached to a rod or handle three and one-half feet long. He dipped the ladle into a pot of molten metal and then twisted around to pour the metal into molds. This was his regular day by day course of operations. On February 23, 1951, while in the act of pouring off he “got like a shock here in my neck” and “it started aching in my back.” He stopped work. There is medical opinion that he suffered a…