Claim of Geroux v. McClintic-Marshall Co.

There is no valid support in the record for the wage rate found by the Board. The claimant, a structural steel worker, had not worked in this structural steel employment, either for the same employer or another, during substantially the whole of the year immediately preceding his injury and his average weekly wages could not be determined under subdivision 1 of section 14 of the Workmen’s Compensation Law. The Board has adopted the measure of subdivision 2 of that section, but there is no proof that the employer’s work or similar employment was being carried on substantially the whole year,…