On October 14, 1954, the claimant was an inmate of Great Meadows Correctional Institution.
At about 2:30 P.M. on that day, under supervision, as he had been directed so to do, claimant, with two other inmates, was standing on a scaffolding installing unit heaters in a building within the walls of the institution. While so doing his ordered work, one of the planks of the scaffolding broke. To break his fall, claimant "grabbed...
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