Claim of Brezzenski v. Crenshaw Engineering Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Crenshaw Engineering Company and another, from an award of the State Industrial Commission, entered in the office of said Commission on or about the 1st day of February, 1919.
1Opinion of the Court
H. T. Kellogg, J.:
The deceased became prostrated with the heat while at work along the tracks of an elevated railway, at about four-thirty *512o’clock in the afternoon of August 9, 1918, and died the following day. He had been engaged for many hours on the elevated structure, moving up and down in the full glare of the sun, carrying bolts and material to workmen, and flagging trains to warn them of repair work then in progress. It was eighty-eight degrees Fahrenheit in the shade between the hours of four and five p. m. upon that day. The day, evidently, marked the conclusion of an intense heat…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Claim of Campbell v. Clausen-Flanagan BreweryAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1918
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