Claim of Etherton v. Johnstown Knitting Mills Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Johnstown Knitting Mills Company and another, from awards of the State Industrial Commission, entered in the office of said Commission on the 10th day of June, 1917, and the 27th day of March, 1918.
1Opinion of the Court
H. T. Kellogg, J.:
Claimant was injured during working hours at the plant of her employer. She came to the plant at about seven a. m., went to the basement, set a bottle of tea on the boiler, and while on her way back to the floor above slipped and fell at the foot of a staircase. If claimant, during working hours, had suspended work to go to a cloakroom to change her clothes, to a washroom to wash up or use the toilet, and while in such room had been injured, she could, under the authorities, have had an award. (Chludzinski v. Standard Oil Co., 176 App. Div. 87; Sexton v. Public Service…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Matter of Daly v. . Bates RobertsNew York Court of Appeals · 1918
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