Bennett's Case

Appeal from a decree confirming an award of compensation by the Industrial Accident Commission of this State.

The Petitioner was employed as a room-man in the shoe shop of Charles Cushman Company in Auburn, Maine, and a part of his work was to move racks loaded with shoes from the treeing room down a ramp to the lining and repairing room on the floor below and return the empty racks to the treeing room by loading them on a chain conveyor. The descent of the ramp was gradual and there was a guard rail on it three feet high and on the side next to the conveyor.

The Commissioner who heard this…