Perron v. ITT Wire & Cable Div.

This is an appeal from a final decree of the workmen’s compensation commission, denying and dismissing an employee’s original petition for compensation benefits.

The record compiled before the single commissioner establishes that petitioner, then thirty-four years of age, was employed by respondent as a maintenance helper on July 29, 1965, when he suffered a work-connected inflammation of the left wrist. His duties that day consisted mostly of operating a jackhammer which at one time stuck in the ground and required tugging and hauling to dislodge. Toward the end of the day, petitioner felt…