Hyers v. Wells Fuel Oil Co.

Appeal by the employer and its insurance carrier from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed March 6, 1973, which held that claimant has a continuing causally related partial disability resulting in reduced post-retirement earnings. Claimant, a truck driver employed ip delivering fuel oil, sustained multiple injuries on January 18, 1970 when he slipped and fell on some icy brick steps while putting a delivery slip in the mail box of a customer. Claimant was hospitalized until January 27, 1970 and when he returned to work on February 17,1970 was given lighter work assignments by…