the Claim of Picinich v. Cayuga Crimmins

Appeal from decisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed July 11, 1975 and April 16, 1976, which found that the deceased employee’s death arose out of and in the course of his employment and awarded death benefits to his widow and three minor children. On August 11, 1973, the deceased was working for the employer herein on the midnight to 8:00 a. m. shift as a construction worker on an excavation project at the Bowling Green subway station in New York City. At approximately 8:15 a. m. on that same day, his dead body was discovered hanging from a beam below the surface of the ground at…