Panzarella v. United States Rubber Co.

This cause is before us on the respondent employer’s appeal from a decree entered in the superior court granting the employee’s original petition for compensation under the workmen’s compensation act, general laws 1938, chapter 300.

The petitioner, who was twenty-eight years of age and the mother of six children, was employed by respondent as a coning operator on the third shift from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. It appears in evidence that the work required her to reach out at shoulder height over the top of a machine, with her weight largely on one side, in order to set the bobbins in place, and also to…