Gramolini's Case

This is a workmen’s compensation case. The employee was injured on March 11,1943, when his left hand was caught in the gears of a machine which he was oiling. He lost all the fingers and thumb of the left hand, and also sustained a severe burn to the upper left arm as it was drawn into the machine and up against a live steam pipe. He has not since been employed in any regular or gainful occupation. He has with the help of another built a two room house which was supported on piles and covered with tar paper. After it was built he at times excavated beneath the house and built two sides of the…