Claim of Macechko v. Bowen Manufacturing Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Bowen Manufacturing Company and another, from an award of the State Industrial Commission, entered in the Albany office of said Commission on the 28th day of February, 1917.
1Opinion of the Court
Lyon, J.:
The question involved in this case is whether an employee who suffers an accidental injury as the result of his having disregarded a rule of his employer, is barred from claiming an award under the Workmen’s Compensation Law (Consol. Laws, chap. 67; Laws of 1914, chap. 41, as amd.).
The facts are undisputed. In December, 1916, the employer was engaged in manufacturing metal oiling cups at Auburn, N. Y. The claimant was the operator of one of its power presses, into which automatically a sheet of steel was fed *574and the cup shells punched therefrom released. It was a rule of the company…
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