Wadsworth's Case

On December 12, 1980, when Scott Wadsworth (employee) was twenty-two years old, his right hand was crushed *676in a metal rolling machine in the course of his employment with the New England Concrete Pipe Corporation (employer) in Massachusetts. The employee received workers’ compensation benefits under G. L. c. 152, § 34, for his temporary and total incapacity for work from December 15, 1980, to May 2, 1988. In 1989, he found employment in Connecticut with Wholesale Auto Supply, where he worked initially as a driver and later as “counter person.” After working in pain for many years and after a…