Buonauito v. Ocean State Dairy Distributors, Inc.

OPINION

SHEA, Justice.

These consolidated petitions came before us on appeal from a decree of the Workers’ Compensation Commission (commission) denying benefits to Domenic Buonauito (employee). 1 The trial commissioner ruled that the employee did not meet the threshold requirement of G. L. 1956 (1979 Reenactment) § 28-33-4, which requires that an employee be incapacitated for at least three days from earning full wages to be eligible for benefits. He also found that the employee left work because he had reached retirement age, not because of work-related injuries. We affirm.

The facts found by…