Legal Opinion
Balkus v. Terry Steam Turbine Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided August 27, 1974PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBogdanski, J.
This is an appeal from a Superior Court affirmance of a workmen’s compensation commissioner’s corrected finding and award. Wallace J. Balkus, the claimant and appellant, was employed as a tool and die maker by the respondent employer, Terry Steam Turbine Company. On May 12, 1968, the claimant was forcefully struck in the back by a heavy metal easting with which he was working. Over the next three days the claimant experienced chest pains and difficulty in breathing, and on May 21, 1968, he was hospitalized for a collapsed right lung (pneumothorax). An intercostal thoracotomy was performed on…
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