Ramos's Case

The insurer appeals from a decree of the Superior Court awarding compensation to the widow of the employee who died on December 9, 1950, from an alleged fatal injury received while in the employ of Fall River Gas Works Company. G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 152. The decedent, a man fifty-three years of age, had worked for the company about thirty-two years. On the morning of December 9 he began work at 7 a.m. and worked until 12 noon cleaning out the furnace by breaking up and removing heavy clinkers. It was work of a kind he was accustomed to perform. He had lunch and then worked at the purifier…