Sanchez v. Industrial Commission

STRUCKMEYER, Justice.

This cause arises out of a petition for writ of certiorari by Frank Sanchez to review an award of the Industrial Commission of Arizona. Petitioner sustained an injury to his back on August 6, 1956, while working for Shattuck Denn Mining Corporation as a miner. Petitioner was .also a part-time musician, working once a week as a trumpet player. After conservative treatment was unsuccessful, a laminectomy and spinal fusion of petitioner’s fifth lumbar and first sacral vertebrae was performed on January 21, 1957. A program of intensive rehabilitation exercises was instituted…