Ball v. Workmen's Compensation Commissioner

Neely, Judge:

This case is an appeal from a final order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board dated September 28, 1972, in which the Board reversed the Workmen’s Compensation Commissioner’s ruling of February 22, 1972, which awarded the claimant a 40% permanent partial disability. In place of the Commissioner’s 40% award, the Board awarded a 25% permanent partial disability.

The record discloses that on October 2, 1967, at the age of sixty-two, the claimant, Willie Ball, sustained an injury to his back while shoveling coal for his employer, Westmoreland Coal Company. He was taken to a…