WORKMAN’S INJURIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 848, 17 December 1929, Page 6

WORKMAN’S INJURIES

STRUCK JAW ON ANCHOR COMPENSATION AWARDED Scaling a rope toward the deck of the Marama in Auckland on April 19 last, Arthur Ellis, a labourer, became exhausted, and fell back into the sea, striking his back on a cable chain and his chin on the anchor in dropping. He was compensated by his employers, the Union Steam Ship Co., Ltd., up to November 4, when the payments ceased because the company considered the injured man was then fit to resume work. Ellis claimed additional compensation in the Arbitration Court yesterday afternoon. Mr. Sullivan represented the claimant and Mr. Bagnall appeared for the shipping company. Medical evidence concerning Ellis’s neurasthenic condition was given by Lrs. J. P. Hastings and A. M. Grant. Hr. G. Graham and Hr. E. H. Milsom, for the defence, considered that Ellis’s mental condition was bad and required rest, but the injuries were not of a permanent nature. Taking into account Ellis’s bad nervous condition prior to the accident, the court allowed compensation from November 4 up to date, and for a further six months, with costs.