Bryant v. Masters MacHine Co.

CARTER, Justice.

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The employee appeals from a pro forma judgment of the Superior Court which affirmed a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Commission denying the Petition for Award of Comjjensation.

The facts of the case are largely undisputed. Until August 14, 1979, the date assertedly commencing the period of total disability, the employee worked as a machinist for Masters Machine Co. On February 28,1978, the employee was in the course of his employment activities operating a drill-press. He was sitting on a stool, described to be twenty-five or twenty-six inches in height, which another…