Claim of Montanari v. Lehigh Portland Cement Co.

Appeal from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. The claimant was employed as a laborer by the appellant Lehigh Portland Cement Company. He worked in a shanty checking the weight of trucks which stood on a scale outside the shanty. The floor of the shanty was concrete, covered in part with corrugated paper. While the claimant was sitting on a bench warming his feet on an electric heater, he fell and hit his shoulder on the floor, causing a dislocation of the left clavicle. The claimant was found in a semi-conscious condition. The medical proof was to the effect that the…