Citation Numbers: 355 Mass. 790, 244 N.E.2d 735, 1969 Mass. LEXIS 945
Filed Date: 1/30/1969
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 11/9/2024
The reviewing board, having adopted the findings and decision of the single member, found that the employee, whose duties during the hours of 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. were to sweep up material and put it into a truck and take the truck by elevator from the upper floors to the first floor of the employer’s building, sustained injuries which arose out of and in the course of his employment on December 30, 1965, when the elevator, which the employee entered on the fourth floor, “overshot the first floor” and dropped into the pit. Fairly read, the report of the board shows compliance with G. L. c. 152, § 8. The findings on all issues are supported by the evidence which is reported in full. The numerous exceptions to
Decree affirmed.
Costs of appeal are to be determined by the single justice.