REO Mechanical v. Barnes

HOWARD, Judge.

This is an appeal from a Daviess Circuit Court order directing the Workers’ Compensation Board to enter an order granting to appellee, Edward L. Barnes, a resumption and continuation of maximum weekly disability benefits and ordering vocational rehabilitation to be provided at appellants’ expense.

Barnes was employed as a boilermaker, a profession involving the metal fabrication for refineries, power plants, etc. On March 3,1982, while working for the appellant, REO Mechanical, appellee fell from a steel I-beam approximately 25 feet onto a concrete floor. The appellee sustained…