Claim of Callaghan v. Sheffield Farms Co.

Appeal by an employer and its carrier (1) from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board dated October 8, 1952, which excused claimant’s failure to file a claim for compensation within the time provided by section 28 of the Workmen’s Compensation Law and (2) from an award and decision dated January 12, 1956 which gave disability benefits to the claimant. Claimant worked as a general utility man in the pasteurizing department of the employer’s plant. His duties, among other things, required him to stack cases of milk. On March 26, 1946, while stacking milk cases “six high”, and in an…