Claim of Lillis v. Hard Manufacturing Co.

Appeal by an employer and its insurance carrier from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board for disability resulting from a lumbosacral strain. The incident described by claimant and which, according to his medical evidence, caused the strain, and the resulting pain said to have marked it as accidental, occurred while claimant, after crawling into a 50-inch steel chiffonier or hospital dresser, weighing 75 pounds, and lifting the chiffonier with his back, was spot welding the substop and end panel by pumping with one foot upon an “ old time ” spot welder while standing upon…