Claim of Baker v. Standard Rolling Mills, Inc.

Foster, P, J.

This is an appeal from an award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board made to claimant for a serious facial disfigurement, and a decision of the board which discharged from liability the Fund For Beopened Cases provided by section 25-a of the Workmen’s Compensation Law.

In February, 1938, claimant was the victim of an industrial accident while employed as a foreman in a metal manufacturing plant. As a consequence he suffered second degree burns of the face and both eyes, enucleation of his left eye and a secondary cataract on the right eye, besides extensive scarring of his face. On…