Matter of Leahy v. City of New York

Claimant-respondent has been awarded workmen’s compensation benefits for an injury sustained by her while working for defendant-appellant, the City of New York. Claimant was engaged as a telephone operator and receptionist in one of the offices of the city’s Board of Water Supply. Her work in itself was not one of the hazardous employments listed in the Workmen’s Compensation Law (Cons. Laws, ch. 67). The Industrial Board found, however, that the Board of Water Supply of the City of New York operates waterworks, a hazardous employment (Workmen’s Compensation Law, § 3, subd. 1, group 7), and…