Morrison-Knudsen Co., Inc. v. Industrial Commission

*2OPINION

NELSON, Judge.

Hugo Boone (Boone), a Navajo Indian, suffered multiple injuries in April of 1966 as the result of a helicopter crash while employed by Halvorson-Lent Transcanyon (Transcanyon), one of the respondents herein. Transcanyon was insured for workmen’s compensation purposes by the State Compensation Fund (Fund).

Among his 1966 injuries were a fractured pelvis, fractured right tibia and fibula, fracture of the right foot, fracture of the mid shaft of the right ulna, fracture of the right clavicle, a cerebral concussion, a possible skull fracture and an ear injury. After much…