D'ANDREA v. Manpower, Inc. of Providence

This original petition for compensation benefits was denied by a trial commissioner on the ground that the injuries had not arisen out of and in the course of the petitioner’s employment with the respondent. On appeal, with one commissioner dissenting, the full workmen’s compensation commission affirmed. The case is here on the employee’s appeal.

The pertinent facts as found by the commission are not disputed. The petitioner, then aged 18, graduated from high school in June of 1966, and pending his matriculation •at college in the fall of that year was employed as a ware house laborer by…