Claim of Nicoletti v. S. H. Pomeroy Co.

Employer and its insurance carrier have appealed from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board awarding claimant compensation for partial disability at reduced earnings. Employer manufactures metal products and employed claimant as a power press operator. The board has found that, while lifting a sheet of metal into a power press, claimant sustained accidental injuries in the nature of a lumbosacral sprain with sudden pain and that he was subjected to a series of traumas in the course of his work, which either caused the present condition or aggravated an underlying condition, resulting…