Liters Quarry, Inc. v. Edday

COMBS, Judge.

These are two direct appeals from an order of the Shelby Circuit Court reversing the order of the Workers’ Compensation Board (Board) denying appellee’s claim for permanent occupational disability benefits.

On October 18, 1984, Jack Edday, then aged 79, was injured when his truck overturned in the course and scope of his employment with Liters Quarry, Inc. He has an eighth-grade education, work experience in farming and truck driving, and no vocational training.

Uncontradicted evidence shows Edday has worked daily most of his life and was regularly working at the time of the…