Barboza v. Converse Rubber Co.

This is an employee’s appeal from a decree of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission denying and dismissing her petition, which seeks a review of an agreement wherein her employer’s insurer was authorized to stop paying her compensation benefits.

In May 1972 Ana had been working for about 4 months in the Converse Rubber Company’s Bristol, Rhode Island, plant. The facts surrounding her injury are contained in a “House Memo,” prepared by the plant’s nurse and included in the record. It indicates that at approximately 11:15 p.m. on May 3 Ana, while operating an “outsole press,” injured the thumb…