Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-12
en respects it did not appear: very

Barnes for about two weeks and then by Dr. Overlook and was then taken to the Day Kimball hospital, where he remained for six months, infection having set in and extending to the hand necessitating about ten opera. tions in all LeDuc left the hospital in October, but even at the time of the hearing it was found that he had to return to the hospital once a week for a dressing. The cuts made extended from the. shoulder down to the bend in the elbow and from about three inches below the elbow up to the middle of the arm on the inner surface, said cuts having been made necessary because of the infection resulting from the in jury.
 Since the injury received on April 18th, 1917, it is found that the claimant has been disabled at all times except for about two weeks when he tried se resume work but was unable to con- tinue same, and it is further found that up to the time of the hearing claimant was totally disabled with the above exception and may be partially disabled for a very short time, very good surgical result having been ob- , tained. The question of any diSa ability existing beyond the date of the hear ing, however, is very doubtful.
 At the hearing the claimant testified that about 1.30 Ga. m.) o'clock of ttie day in question Bibeault came to him and said: Did you see the boss?" and claimant testified that~he replied No Whereupon Bibeault remarked Put a hunt on for him to put a strap on the best" LeDuc stated that he was un- | able to find the overseer, but he found i the second boss, who told him to put the belt on himself, and in attempting 1 to do so with the assistance of Bi- ! beault the belt broke and carried Le- | Due around the shafting three times | and that the metal fingers which hold the belt together caught in his arm and cut way to the bone and tore the flesh ..,. Claimant testified that he was un- ! able to find the overseer to report to him that the belt was off, but that he did find the second boss and told him ] the belt was off. and that he was told
 not to bother him and to do it him. self. LeDuc also testified that the belt had never broken before, but that it had come off the pulley five or six times or more while he was working
 on the machine, in which case he hac put it back on, or with Bibeaults as sistance, and that the boss had seer
 him put them on and only once haG been told not to stand on the machine
 to put the belt on. but that it was
 necessary for him to get on the ma chine to prevent the belt from slipping
 off and that it took two to replace {
 belt.
 Edmund Flagg, overseer at the Good
 year cotton mills, testified at the hear ing that he was on another floor at tn, I time of the accident, that on one, oc
 casion he had seen claimant attempt ing to help put a belt on a machine at which time he told him to get of ] the machine, that he had no knowledg of any notices being posted in the mil to the effect that employees should no put belts on machines. but that ther
 lad been considerable trouble wit
 belts coming off. of the particular ma chine in question, and he admitted tha probably claimant attempted to hel Bibeault replace the belt for the pur pose of getting the machine starte again and for the purpose of gettin the work along and with no intentio
 on his part of injuring himself.
 Asked LeDuc to Help Him.
 Frank Bibeault, a boy of 16 year
 Of age, and employed at the Goodyea cotton mills at the time in question
 testified that he asked Leo LeDuc
 help him put the belt on which ha
 come off of Bibeault's machine, that h and Leo had put them on before an that the belts came off quite ofte
 previous to the injury but. that the
 had always been able to get them 0 before without injury, that it was tn g habit of the boys in the mill to. l1r
 on their own belts without waiting fo a ixer, that he also works daps an
 that during the day time he had see other employees put on belts. fand tha
 on the night of the injury when hi belt came off he looked around for fiXer but did not find one and so wer to Leo and asked him to assist hin
 and that he did ask LeoI to go and fin
 the boss (which statement he late
 said he did not make9. In the mai Bibeaul's testimony scoincided wit
 that of the claimant, although in son