Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-04-30
Workmen's
Compensation
Decisions
Special to Newark Leader

An employee of a telephone eX-
change who, with other employees, is
kept on duty after the regular quit
ting hour and is sent to a nearby res
taurant for her lunch, slipping on the
icy pavement and sustaining a broken
ankle, sustains an injury arising out
of her employment and will be grant
ed ompensation.-Claim of Vera Pat
terson, No. 985,903.
A workman hired to substitute for
a regular employee is not casual
employee, but one entitled to bene-
fits of the workmen's compensation
law when he is injured in the tumbler
department of a glass factory and 1t
is shown that the work he was do
ing was of the regular trade and bus
mess of the mployer.-Claim of
Leonard Moore, No. 991, 1,197.
A laundry wagon driver, who stops
to pet dog of a customer, does not
sustain an injury in the course of nor
arising out of his employment when
the dog bites his hand.-Claim of
Charles Brundage, No. M-460,418.
When an apprentice plumber re-
ceives a broken nose as the result of
blow from a master plumber under
whom he is working and who becomes
angry over the manner in which the
work was being done, such apprentice
sustains an injury arising out of his
EMPLOYMENT and medical expense
necessary will be paid from the state
insurance fund.-Claim of William
O'Brien, No. M-408,362.
A workman who returns to the en-
plover's plant after the regular quit
ting hour to change his shoes, which
he had forgotten to do, and steps on
a piece of pipe, causing him to fall,
does not sustain an injury in the
course Oh nor arising out of his en-
ployment, for the reason he is pre-
sumed to have departed from his en-
ployment on the return errand for
articles for his personal use and his
claim will be disallowed.-Clai of
John Tolan, No. 992,237.
A high school student, working
Saturday nights at the circular de-
partment of a Sunday newspaper, sus-
tains injuries in the course Of his en-
ployment when an elevator carriage
crushed his head and is entitled to
compensation as an employee of such
newspaper, even though employed
onlv one day per week.-Claim of W..
E. Hapner, No. 986,241.
When a millwright undertakes to
plane a block of wood on a machine
for a fellow-worker and the block
slips, causing him to suffer severe
decorations of the hand, the accident
happening at the noon-hour, he has
departed from his regular course of
duty and claim for compensation
and payment Of medical expenses will
not be allowed-Claim of Frank Det-
weller, No. 989,864.
An employe of a factory, who goes
from his own department to another
for the purpose of buffing buckle
on a dog collar, does not sustain an
injury in the course of nor arising out
of his employment, for the reason
that permission had not been granted
him and the act in which he met with
the injury was one of a personal ma
ture.-Claim of James Doyle, No
987,371.
Violent exertion of repairing a
broken gas main, together with be-
ing overcome by gas, causing car
dias decomposition, constitutes an in
jury in the course of employment
even though the workman did have a
nlitral heart lesion for twelve years,
but from which he was never before
disabled, the asphyxiating agencies
dealing disability-Claim of Glenn
Andrew Loher, No. 14,164-P. E.