Claim of Vanecek v. Greeley Square Building Corp.

Appeal from decisions and awards of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. Decedent fell from a ladder while engaged in his employment as a painter on March 30, 1949. He was unconscious after the fall and had a laceration on the left occipital region of the scalp. He was taken to a hospital; the scalp was sutured and the employee complained of headaches and dizziness. While in the hospital he had a “generalized seizure” in which he became unconscious for a short time with certain residual symptoms. Because of a “possibility of post-traumatic bleeding” resulting from the fall in view of the…