321 Mass. 310 | Mass. | 1947
J. This is an appeal from a decree awarding compensation to an employee who sustained an injury on December 4, 1943, and a second injury on January 5, 1945, while working for the same employer. The sole contention of the employer, who was a self insurer, is that the evidence was insufficient to prove that the present disability was due to the second injury rather than to the first one.
There was evidence that the employee’s right hand was caught in a riveting machine on December 4, 1943, fracturing the fifth metacarpal bone and the proximal phalanges of the little and middle fingers, and lacerating all the fingers and the palm of the hand. The fractures were reduced and his wounds sutured. Later there was an open reduction
There is nothing in the record to show that either the single member or the board was requested to determine whether the incapacity of the employee was caused by the first rather than the second accident, or that the rights of
Decree afirmed.