Quintana v. Worcester Textile Co.

OPINION

BEVILACQUA, Chief Justice.

This is an employee’s appeal from a decree of the Workers’ Compensation Commission, affirming the trial commissioner’s decision to deny compensation benefits to the employee for failure to prove that she had sustained an injury arising out of and in the course of her employment with the employer.

The record reveals that employee, Maria Quintana, worked as a “twister” for employer Worcester Textile Company. She testified that on May 1,1982, while bending down to clean some yarn from the lower part of her twisting machine, she felt pain in her neck, and that upon…