Willette v. Statler Tissue Corp.

DUFRESNE, Chief Justice.

This case is here on appeal by Statler Tissue Corporation (Statler), self insurer, from a pro forma decree of the Superior Court, Kennebec County, which implemented an award of compensation by the Industrial Accident Commission.

The record on appeal indicates the following facts. On January 14, 1972 the ap-pellee, Robert Willette, was employed as a “beater man” by the Statler Tissue Corporation. On that date, while attempting to repair a machine, Willette slipped and, in trying to prevent a fall, stretched out to grab the rung of a ladder above him and did reach it. In…