COLEMAN v. STATE


3 A.D.2d 802 (1957)

Charles Coleman, Respondent, v. State of New York, Appellant. (Claim No. 31725.)

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

March 21, 1957


Claimant, while an inmate of a State prison and working in the prison brush shop, was injured when two fingers of his left hand were cut by the revolving blades of the shaping machine which he was operating. The machine was designed to be equipped with a guard such as was required, of private employers at least, by section 256 of the Labor Law. The State had failed to provide any guard. Claimant has been awarded judgment and the...

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