Paltsios's Case

The principal question in this case is whether *357the employee is entitled to double compensation under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 152, § 28, as appearing in St. 1943, c. 529, § 9, for an injury sustained on Saturday, September 22, 1945, when he was over sixteen but under eighteen years of age, by getting his hand caught in a meat grinding machine which he was operating at the provision store of the employer. Loss of the hand resulted.

This section reads as follows: “If the employee is injured by reason of the serious and wilful misconduct of an employer or of any person regularly intrusted with and…