Morgan v. Davol, Inc.

OPINION

This is a workers’ compensation case. It came on to be heard before a panel of this court on an order directed to the employer to show cause why the employee’s appeal should not be sustained.

The employee, whose job title was “Trash Attender,” sustained a work-related injury on Wednesday, November 23, 1977, when she cut the little finger of her right hand on a razor blade that had somehow found its way into a trash bin. Immediately after being injured, she left work and was treated at a nearby emergency room. She did not work on the following Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, or Friday, a…