Mazzarella v. ITT Royal Electric Division

This is an employee’s original petition under the Workers’ Compensation Act. The trial commissioner found that the employee had failed to prove by a fair preponderance of the credible evidence that he sustained any aggravating injury to his back arising out of his employment. The case is before us on the employee’s appeal from a decree of the full commission affirming the decree of the trial commissioner.

Although the testimony is conflicting on a number of points, it is undisputed that on April 25, 1972, the employee injured his lower back while moving reels in the performance of his work as…