Opinion
November 20, 1946.
Appeal from Workmen's Compensation Board.
Since 1937, claimant's duties required him, among other things, to gather swings and other playground apparatus for storage overnight. While so engaged and while lifting a wheelbarrow loaded with swings he felt a pain in the right side of the groin which developed into a hernia. Claimant was directed to and performed other duties such as putting up electric lights and climbing ladders. The Workmen's Compensation Board directed an award in favor of the claimant. It was held that the employments were hazardous and that the claimant's occupation was hazardous. The record justifies the conclusions reached. ( Matter of Kaufman v. City of New York, 270 App. Div. 967.) Decision and award affirmed, with costs to the Workmen's Compensation Board. All concur.