Baum v. Dick Henley, Inc.

ALFORD, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment granting plaintiff permanent partial disability worker’s compensation claim against appellants Dick Henley, Inc. (Henley), as his previous employer and United States Fidelity and Guaranty Co., Henley’s insurance carrier.

The plaintiff, A.J. Baum, injured three fingers on his right hand on October 14, 1981, while working as a carpenter for Henley (a job he had obtained out of the local carpenters’ union.)

Immediately after the incident, plaintiff, a 41-year-old male with an eighth grade education and four years of training as a carpenter, reported…