281 A.D. 718 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1952
Appeal from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. Claimant is a machinist. On June 15, 1946, while working on a cylinder a ramhead caught. In pulling this free claimant “felt a snap” in his back. Several awards of compensation benefits have been made as a result of this injury and have been paid. The carrier, however, suggested that the claimant should undergo a spinal fusion operation. Claimant has refused this and the board has now found that his refusal is not unreasonable, although it found earlier in a decision which it rescinded that Ms refusal was “ unreason