Hicks v. Vennerbeck & Clase Co.

OPINION

WEISBERGER, Justice.

This workers’ compensation case comes before us on the employee’s petition for certiorari to review a final decree of the appellate commission reversing the trial commissioner’s order to pay compensation for a continuing period of total incapacity and ordering instead payment for a closed period. The facts pertinent to the employee’s petition are as follows.

As of April 1982, Vennerbeck & Clase Company (Vennerbeck), had employed Raymond Hicks for one year as a “flat stock worker.” In this job Hicks processed various types of metals for use as jewelry stock,…