7 A.D.2d 676 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1958
Appeal by a self-insured employer from an award of disability compensation for injuries found to have resulted from claimant’s employment. Claimant was employed as a plating room racker by the employer which was engaged in the manufacture of business machines. It was found by the board that on two occasions, February 5 and February 10, 1951, claimant picked up metal racks which were wet with sulphuric and nitric acid, and as a result she suffered second degree acid burns on both hands. The board further found that the condition of both hands was complicated thereafter by frequent washing of her hands with soaps, as a result of which she became disabled from a subacute eezematized dermatitis of the hands. Appellant objects to the award, first upon the ground that written notice of the injuries was not given to the employer within the time prescribed by statute (Workmen’s Compen