Roberge's Case

The insurer appeals from that part of a decree of the Superior Court which awarded specific compensation under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 152, § 36 (r), as appearing in St. 1949, c. 519. The employee was injured in January, 1952, while working as a carpenter, by catching the thumb of his right or major hand in the knives of a planing machine. As a consequence, the tip of his thumb was amputated and he lost about three sixteenths of an inch of the bone of the terminal phalange. He was out of work a little over two weeks. The medical testimony negatived any loss of function and there was no finding of…