| Date: | 03/22/1999 |
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| Organization: | Department of Industrial Accidents |
| Docket Number: | DIA Board No. 026135-94 |
| Location: | Boston |
- Employee: Lucrenia Rego
- Employer: ACT Manufacturing
- Insurer: Eastern Casualty Insurance
CARROLL, J. The employee challenges on appeal a decision denying her claim for workers’ compensation benefits attributable to an alleged series of falls at work on February 22, 1994. The employee argues that the interpreter whom she provided to translate at hearing from her native language, Portuguese, failed to provide adequate and accurate translation, thereby denying the employee her due process right to a fair hearing. Because the employee made no objection at hearing – or in any way drew the administrative judge’s attention to the issue of the interpreter’s competence or the adequacy of her translation – we deem the issue waived for argument on appeal. Pierre v. Tad Power Temp, 11 Mass. Workers’ Comp. Rep. 46, 48 (1997). See Commonwealth v. Festa, 369 Mass. 419, 428 (1976).