Dvlinsky's Case

This is a proceeding under the workmen’s compensation act. Abraham Dvlinsky, while engaged on the seventh floor of a building in Brockton in investigating and adjusting the stopping arrangement on a freight elevator cable, slipped and fell to the bottom of the elevator well and received injuries which caused his death. His widow filed with the Industrial Accident Board a claim for compensation. G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 152, § 32.

A single member of the board heard the parties. He reported all the material evidence, and made a finding of certain facts and a decision that the death of the claimant’s…