OK Iron & Metal Company v. Sandoval

McINERNEY, Justice.

The award under review, which allows claimant compensation for permanent partial disability and disfigurement, is challenged by the single complaint that the employer was denied a “full, fair and impartial hearing” by the trial judge’s refusal to grant a continuance arid to direct that claimant request and consent to the release of his medical records in possession of a federal veterans’ facility.

Claimant admittedly sustained an accidental injury on May 22, 1965, while on the job at employer’s premises. The accident occurred when a small butane bottle exploded and the gas…