Langlais v. Superior Plating, Inc.

Scott, Justice.

The employer and its insurer seek review of a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission awarding permanent total disability benefits of $80 per week from January 22, 1972. We affirm.

The employee, Lawrence Langlais, commenced employment with Superior Plating, Inc., in January 1946, and between that time and March 1969 worked as both a spray painter and electrofilm painter. This latter process involves spraying of an object which has been placed into a barrel container holding a dioxane mixed with dry graphite. The metal object to be sprayed is placed in a three-sided…