Case ID: nj-misc_4/html/0777-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Chaeles E. Coebin, \n      Deputy Commissioner.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

New Jersey Department of Labor, Workmen’s Compensation Bureau.
    MICHAEL BILOKIEWICZ, PETITIONER, v. CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY OF NEW JERSEY.
    Round House Employe Injured While Working on an Engine Preparing to Engage In Interstate Commerce—Held, Bureau Without Jurisdiction.
    Eor the petitioner, Samuel Greenstone.
    
    For the respondent, Theodore J. E. Brown.
    
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1. The petitioner was employed by the respondent, Central Railroad Company oí New Jersey, on September the 4th, 1924, as round house employe. At the time of this accident he was engaged in putting coal on the fire, and while so doing a piece of coal fell from the top of the tank. At this time he was working on B. & 0. engine 4604, which engine had arrived at Jersey City at two thirty-six a. m., with train known as P.D.No. 4 from Baltimore, and left the same day with train known as DP No. 5 for Baltimore, leaving Jersey City at seven twenty-five p. m. This engine was regularly engaged in this service.

2. It is further stipulated and agreed that the said Michael Bilokiewiez was employed as round house employe on January the 12th, 1925, and fell from engine No. 1.63, said engine being in the act of taking sand, having just completed taking coal from under a shute. This engine was engaged in interstate commerce, as it was assigned to trains No. 402 and No. 403, which are known as “Somerville Locals.” At the round house a daily register book is kept. In this book it shows that Engineer Harry Dow and Fireman J. J. Harrington had signed said register book and were actually in active interstate sérviee, as the movement which they were then making was to take on coal and sand and proceed to the Jersey Central train shed, the terminus of the Ceneral Railroad Company of New Jersey, and from thence return to Somerville with passengers enroute from New York to various points in New Jersey.

In view of the above, it is apparent that the petitioner was engaged in interstate, commerce at the time of his injury, and the workmen’s compensation bureau of the department of labor of the State of New Jersey is without jurisdiction to award compensation to the petitioner, and, therefore, the petition is dismissed; •

Chaeles E. Coebin,

Deputy Commissioner.