Low Splint Coal Co., Inc. v. Bolling

In this appeal, the dispositive question for our determination is whether the Industrial Commission erred in making an award requiring the employer of a disabled claimant to provide for him an improved entrance ramp at the rear of his residence and modifications to his bathroom.

While employed by Low Splint Coal Company, Inc., the claimant, Glen D. Bolling, was injured in a 1978 mining accident which rendered him a paraplegic confined to a wheelchair. His employer and its insurance carrier, Old Republic Insurance Company (collectively, the employer), agreed that the accident was compensable,…