AK Steel Corp. v. Childers

OPINION

JOHNSON, Judge.

AK Steel Corporation has appealed from an opinion of the Workers’ Compensation Board entered on November 6, 2002, affirming the Administrative Law Judge’s award of permanent partial disability benefits to Carl E. Childers. Having concluded that the Board erred in affirming the ALJ’s award of the 2 multiplier as found in KRS 342.730(l)(c)2 to enhance Childers’s disability benefits, we reverse and remand.

Childers, who was born on September 6, 1940, has a high school diploma and has completed two years of college. He began his employment with AK Steel in 1963 and remained…