Dailey v. Southern Heel Co.

OPINION

FONES, Justice.

This is a workers’ compensation case in which the employer was found liable for the sixty percent permanent partial impairment to the employee’s left leg and the Second Injury Fund was found liable for the remainder of the award up to the maximum amount of $54,400. We affirm.

Plaintiff, Joe Thomas Dailey, worked for Defendant Southern Heel Company (hereinafter “Southern Heel”) for twenty years. Before this employment, Plaintiff had several jobs. He farmed, cut timber, operated dozers and drove a truck. He had an eighth grade education and was sixty-two years old at the…