Provencher v. Glas-Kraft, Inc.

This is an employee’s petition for workmen’s compensation benefits. It is before us on the employee’s appeal from a final decree of the full commission affirming the trial commissioner’s denial of the petition. Hereafter, we shall refer to the employee as the “petitioner” or by his last name.

In 1962, petitioner was working for respondent as a maintenance man. On March 6, 1962, while he was setting up some machinery, petitioner slipped on the oily floor and struck his head against the flywheel of one of the machines. Over a year later, on May 24, 1963, petitioner sustained a second injury.…