Whaley v. Shellady, Inc.

Bramhall, J.:

This appeal raises the sole question of whether there was substantial evidence to sustain an order of the Industrial Accident Board terminating an award of permanent total disability and making an award of permanent partial disability.

On May 27, 1954, claimant in the course of his employment by employer as a plumber’s helper, while tightening a flange on a cold water system, slipped and fell from a stepladder to the ground, injuring his spine. Medical examination later disclosed his injury to be an acute lumbosacral strain in the region of the small of his back, with traumatic…