MATTER OF KELPIN v. WATTS & SONS


5 A.D.2d 722 (1957)

In the Matter of the Claim of Helen Kelpin, on Behalf of Herself and Minor Children, Respondent, v. Watts & Sons et al., Appellants. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent

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

December 19, 1957


The deceased employee was engaged as a food handler, which required him to load, among other commodities, heavy packages of butter, weighing up to 64 pounds. The packages of butter and cases of eggs were placed on a hand truck or flat truck to be wheeled from the storeroom to a transport truck outside. On the day of his death, decedent and his foreman had loaded 125 packages of butter, each weighing approximately 64 pounds. Usually this work was performed by three or four...

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