Allen v. Henry Evers, Inc.

OPINION

KELLEHER, Justice.

This is an appeal by an employee from a decree of the appellate division of the Workers’ Compensation Commission affirming a trial commissioner’s denial of the employee’s petition for benefits; in that petition the employee alleged a total loss of earning capacity because of job-related injuries. Hereafter we shall refer to the employee by his last name, Allen, and to his employer as Evers.

In September 1977 Allen worked at Ev-ers’s plant as a general all-around handyman who did “mostly all the odd work.” When Allen appeared before the trial commissioner, he testified…