Wayland Health Center v. Lowe

OPINION

BEVILACQUA, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree of the Workers’ Compensation Commission denying relief to the employee. The employee, Nora Lowe, was employed as a nurse’s aide by the employer, Wayland Health Center. Her duties involved attending to the needs of various patients. Both before and after attending to each patient, the employee was required to wash her hands with a special cleanser.

In March of 1979 employee’s hands developed blisters and a rash that later spread to both of her feet. By June 1979 the condition of her hands had deteriorated to the point that…