Imperial Knife Co. v. Gonsalves

This is an employer’s petition brought under the workmen’s compensation act, general laws 1938, chapter 300, as amended, to review a preliminary agreement providing compensation for total incapacity. The case is before us on the respondent employee’s appeal from the decree of the workmen’s compensation commission affirming the decree of the trial commissioner granting the employer’s petition and ordering payment of compensation for partial incapacity.

The preliminary agreement stated that on September 7, 1955, while working for petitioner as a power press operator, the employee caught the…