Coppa v. MA Gammino Construction Company

This is an original petition for compensation and medical and hospital benefits under the workmen’s com pensation act. After a hearing before the trial commissioner a decree was entered denying and dismissing the petition. The case is before us on the petitioner’s appeal from the decree of the full commission affirming the decree of the trial commissioner.

The petitioner was employed by respondent for approximately eighteen years. This petition is based on an incident which he claims occurred in the course of his employment on a construction job in Cranston in August 1959 while he was working…