Wallace v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

REDMANN, Judge.

Plaintiff appeals from the dismissal on the merits of his suit for workmen’s compensation benefits for total and permanent disability. We affirm the rejection of that *383demand but award compensation for permanent impairment of function.

Heavy tires fell on plaintiff’s neck, causing injury requiring a C-5, 6 laminecto-my which has left plaintiff with a disability estimated by the physicians at 10 to 15% of the body as a whole but which does not disable him from doing heavy labor. An occipital neuritis (in the C-2 region) causes pain in the left rear portion of plaintiff’s scalp,…