Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-02-13
Industrial Accidents

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The following decisions have been
handed down by the Maine Industrial
Accident Commission:
The Industrial Accident Commission
in q decision handed down Monday in
the Portland case of Michael J. Quarry
vs. e S. Booth, orders the payment of
a compensation of SO per week for
period of four weeks, from Nov. to
Dec. /, 1916. and medical services not
exceeding $50 for the first two weeks
paid by the respondent.
While engaged as a hatchman at the
port of Portland on Oct. 20, 1916, this
employee in attempting to untangle q
fall used for lowering cargo into the
hold of a vessel received an injury to
the third finger of the right hand
which removed the nail and crushed
the bone. The injured finger became
infected and caused a disability cover
ing period of six weeks.
In a decision handed down in anoth-
err Portland case. that of John Conlcy
VS.. +. S. Booth & Co.. employer it is
ordered that a compensation of $9.G2
per week for a period of two weeks and
one day be paid, or S2O.S4 and that
physician DlllS llOI tAtttuiilS %oo ioi
the first two weeks following the injury
he paid by the respondent.
This petitioner while engaged in
wheeling clay from vessel to a car at
Portland on Sunday. Oct. -. 1916, re-
ceived an injury to the third finger of
left hand by catching it between the
car door and the wheel-barrow handle.
The injury was such that it split the
knuckle joint and tore off the fleshy
part of the finger.
In the decision in the case of Mrs.
John Moore VS.. f. w. Brown Co. Of
South Portland. it is ordered and de-
creed that compensation of 81 per
week be paid from Sept. ., 1916, to Dec.
II, 1916, and that physicians bills and
medicines. not exceeding $50 in amount
he paid for the 14-day period, begin
ming with Aug. 10, 1916.
Prayer for medical bills Is denied in
a decision in the case of Charles ID.
Kennedy VS.. Wing and Engel Box Co.
of Old Town and Royal Indemnity co.
The applicant was employed as a
bookkeeper and aside from the keeping
books a part of his duties were to go
from his office to the railroad freight Of
time to engage a hackman to meet the
manager of the company at the depot.
On April -, 1916. the date of the al
legged injury. the employee was on his
way to the freight office with some re-
ceipts and had stopped to talk with a
Mr.. Wing. Mr.. Kennedy was the own
cr of a dog that followed him about
and it was during his conversation
with Mr.. Wing that his dog began
fighting with another dog. In his en-
deavor to separate the dogs the petit
toner was bitten and now claims that
he is entitled to physicians bills for
treatment of injuries received. He
does not claim compensation and it
does not appear that any time was lost
Says the decision: 1T is not a part of
bookkeeper's duties to keep a dog
and the act of separating two dogs
from fighting upon the street cannot be
an act arising out of and in the course
OF employment. When this employee
started to separate the dogs he was
wholly outside of any hazard incident
to his employment and whatever the
result might have been he could not
make claim that his employer was re-
sponsihe."
| Compensation Is denied In the Dex-
ter case of Ezra p. German, vs. Fay &
Scott, employer. and the United States
Fidelity and Guaranty Co.
The applicant claims to have been
injured on Sept. Is. 1916, by the lever
of a planer at which he was working
striking him on the knee. He states
that he continued at his work until
Sept 20 when he was obliged to leave
work on account of pain and lamcness
and that following the injury the knee
became swollen and that finally the
trouble whatever it was, settled in his
instep. he being unable to resume his
employment until Oct. Il, 1916.
Says the decision: This is a case
where it would seem that the com
missioner is obliged to rely wholly
upon the evidence of the attending
physician. as it appears from the APP
plicant's signed petition for adjustment
of the claim that he was unable to get
a physicians certificate. prior to MAX
ing his application. showing that his
disability was caused by the alleged
injury.
A decision handed down by the In
dustrial Accident Commission in anoth-
err Dexter case, that of Vera Pomroy
VS.. Morrison Wooden Co, employer, and
United States Fidelity and Guaranty
Co, carrier, orders compensation of 81
per week from March 20, 1916, to May