Pew v. Industrial Commission

STEVENS, Judge.

This Court again considers the problems of a workman who has lived approximately 3 score years, who has little formal education, who has engaged in heavy physical labor all of his working life, who has an osteoarthritic condition of the low back, and who after an industrial injury finds labor most difficult.

The workman is the petitioner, Arthur Lew Pew. On 24 June 1967 during his 59th year he was the operator of heavy equipment on a construction job. He received a severe jolt. The jolt threw him under the arm of the seat of the vehicle and caused a sprain to his lower back.…