Parente v. Apponaug Company

This is an original petition for compensation under the workmen’s compensation act, general laws 1938, chapter 300. The case is before us on respondent’s appeal from a decree of the superior court awarding petitioner compensation for total incapacity.

Petitioner’s regular work with the respondent was to lift heavy rolls of cloth on to a stand connected with a certain machine, which stand was about 26 to 28 inches above the factory floor. To place the roll in position on the stand, the petitioner first inserted a lever in one end of the roll and, while the other end rested on the floor, he…