Rainville v. KING'S TRUCKING CO., INC.

OPINION

KELLEHER, Justice.

This is an employee’s appeal from a decree of the appellate division of the Workers’ Compensation Commission vacating a trial commissioner’s award of benefits to the employee for the loss of use of his right leg and right arm and for the disfigurement of the leg and arm. Hereafter we shall refer to the employee as “Rainville” and to the employer as “King’s.”

On May 11,1970, Rainville, who was then thirty, was working for King’s as a driver and furniture mover. He was injured while attempting to move a food freezer down a staircase. When the step upon which Rain-ville…