Wayne Smith Trucking, Inc. v. McWilliams

DAVID M. GLOVER, Judge.

| |AppelIee Dan McWilliams suffered an admittedly compensable injury on April 13, 2008, while tightening a nylon strap on a load of baled cardboard; the strap broke, causing him to fall and strike his head on one of the trailer’s dolly legs. He suffered a laceration from the midline of his forehead to just below his hairline toward his left ear. The laceration required nineteen stitches and left a scar across McWil-liams’s forehead.

McWilliams filed a claim for permanent-disability benefits.1 At the hearing, the parties stipulated that McWilliams had sustained a…