Bartel v. J.R. Simplot Co.

SHEPARD, Justice.

This is an appeal by claimant-appellant Bartel from an order of the Industrial Commission awarding Bartel a disability rating of 15% of the whole person, but denying Bartel’s claim that she is totally and permanently disabled. We affirm.

Claimant Bartel had been working at the Simplot potato processing plant in Burley, Idaho for some four years when on April 1, 1975, while hand trimming a potato, she noticed a pain in her shoulder and numbness in her arm. Shortly thereafter, her hand became discolored and she was unable to use the right arm. During the following year, claimant…