LeBrun v. Woonsocket Spinning Co.

This is an employee’s original petition for specific compensation for the permanent total loss of the use of his left hand pursuant to G. L. 1956, §28-33-19, as amended by P. L. 1963, chap. 50, sec. 1. It was heard together with two petitions filed by the employee seeking to amend a preliminary agreement for specific compensation entered into on December 29, 1966. The trial commissioner, after hearing thereon, denied and dismissed each of the petitions. The petitioner thereafter appealed to the full commission, which affirmed the action of the trial commissioner in denying and dismissing…