Pugh v. PIEDMONT MECHANICAL

This is an appeal of a workers’ compensation case arising from James Pugh’s consolidated request for medical treatment for two injuries to his right knee. He contends the Appellate Panel of the South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission (Appellate Panel) erred in failing to fairly and justly determine his average weekly wage and in ignoring the existence of exceptional circumstances, making it unfair to calculate his average weekly wage for his 2007 injury based on a seventeen-week period. Pugh also argues the Appellate Panel erred by failing to award temporary total disability for a…