DeFilippo's Case

The Industrial Accident Board found that in the course of his employment as a stonecutter the employee received an injury, arising out of his employment, through the continual inhalation of particles of stone dust, which resulted in the condition called pneumonoconiosis, popularly called stonecutters’ disease. This is a “personal injury” within the workmen’s compensation act, G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 152, § 26. Sullivan’s Case, 265 Mass. 497. Fabrizio’s Case, 274 Mass. 352. Langford’s Case, 278 Mass. 461. The conduct of the employee in keeping at work as long as he could was not such a voluntary…