MATTER OF WORDEN v. GEN. DROP FORGE CORP.


285 A.D. 910 (1955)

In the Matter of the Claim of Hiram E. Worden, Respondent, v. General Drop Forge Corporation et al., Appellants. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

February 3, 1955.


On June 12, 1951, while working for his employer, claimant's left hand was pinched between two bars of heavy steel, resulting in permanent injuries by way of extension defects at the metacarpal phalangeal joints of the first, second and third fingers of that hand. He had a pre-existing loss of use of the thumb of the same hand caused by a boyhood accident while playing baseball. There was agreement in the medical evidence that the pre-existing thumb injury constituted a 90...

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