Rogers v. Deposit Service Corp.

HILL, Judge.

Appellant, Robert W. Rogers, prosecutes this appeal from the circuit court judgment affirming an award made by the Workmen’s Compensation Board fixing his permanent partial disability at 25 percent. He claims total permanent disability.

Rogers received injuries to his “back, leg and left arm” in a fall from a height of about ten feet onto a concrete floor from the top of a hogshead virtually filled with tobacco. He was placing the tobacco in the hogshead and then packing it down with his weight. He had been doing this work during the winter tobacco season for about fourteen years.…