MATTER OF KRAKAT v. WEATHERWAX

Claimant was injured by a chip of steel striking him in his left eye and causing a traumatic cataract as the result of which he suffered a 100 per cent loss of vision of the eye. The appellant here questions the causal relation and the excuse of failure to give notice. The claimant testified that he reported the accident to his foreman at the time it happened and also that two of his fellow coemployees attempted to give him first aid. The employer failed to send claimant to a doctor and the day following the accident he was laid off. There is medical evidence that the cataract was caused by the trauma. Award unanimously affirmed, with costs to the State Industrial Board.