Guilmette v. HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY

This is an employer’s appeal from a decree of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission affirming a decree of the trial commissioner which awarded the employee benefits for total incapacity. Hereinafter, we shall refer to the employer as “Humble Oil” and the employee as “Guilmette.”

Guilmette worked for Humble Oil as the manager and mechanic at a service station located in Hopkinton, Rhode Island. On November 25, 1971, Guilmette slipped and fell on some slush that had accumulated on the floor in the office portion of the station. The physicians who have either treated or examined Giulmette are in…