Matthews v. Falvey Linen Supply, Inc.

This is an employee’s original petition for compensation under the Workmen’s Compensation Act. The petition was heard by a trial commissioner, who thereafter, on April 7, 1971, entered a decree in which he found that the petitioner had sustained third-degree burns on her left arm while working as a shirtpresser in a laundry; that the injury was sustained in the course of her employment, connected therewith, and referable thereto; and that by reason of such injury the petitioner was totally incapacitated for work for the period beginning May 11, 1970, and ending on December 12, 1970. The trial…