Meketsy v. Roger Williams Foods

OPINION

KELLEHER, Justice.

This is a Workers’ Compensation dispute in which the worker’s petition for compensation benefits was denied by a trial commissioner and the denial approved by an appellate division of the Workers’ Compensation Commission. The worker appeals. We affirm the appellate division’s action. Hereafter we shall refer to the employee as Meketsy and to the employer as Roger Williams.

Roger Williams operates a wholesale-food-distribution center in the town of Cumberland, Rhode Island, for the exclusive benefit of a chain of markets known by the name of IGA. Meketsy works as a…