Vaz's Case

'This is an appeal from a decree awarding compensation to an employee for an injury sustained October 6, 1958. The award was based upon findings of a single member as supplemented and modified by the reviewing board.

The claimant, Yaz, was a rope machine operator for the Plymouth Cordage Company in whose employ he had been for twenty-two years. He was working for the first time on the 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift at the time of his injury which occurred shortly after 3 a.m. when there was a designated relief period of fifteen minutes. He had used the elevator which was operated by push button to go…