Matter of Keator v. . Rock Plaster Manufacturing Company
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an .order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered March 8, 1918, reversing an award of the state industrial commission and dismissing the claim.
1Opinion of the CourtMcLaughlin, J.
On the 12th of June, 1917, Alexander Keator was in the employ of the Rock Plaster Manufacturing Company, which had a place of business at One Hundred and Fiftieth street and East river, New York city. As a necessary incident to the carrying on of such business, rock was unloaded from vessels lying alongside a pier in the East river, and dumped on the dock near the plant. Keator had charge of the unloading of such rock. On the day mentioned, while actually engaged in the performance of his duties in unloading a vessel, then in navigable waters, he was struck by a load of rock being hoisted…
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