Opinion
March 20, 1952.
Appeal from Workmen's Compensation Board.
Present — Foster, P.J., Heffernan, Brewster, Bergan and Coon, JJ.
The employer operated a private school at Forest Hills, New York. Decedent was employed as a steward and cook. On October 23, 1945, while decedent was engaged in the regular course of his employment and while working for his employer in the kitchen of the school, he fell, striking his head on the floor and as a result he sustained accidental injuries in the nature of ecchymosis about the right eye, laceration of the right frontal scalp and occipital scalp, laceration of the brain and a right subdural hematoma. Such injuries caused his death on the same day. The board found that the injuries sustained were accidental and were not due to a natural cause or pathology. The evidence sustains the findings of the board. Award unanimously affirmed, with costs to the Workmen's Compensation Board.