Superior Construction Co. v. Day

While working for the appellant as a bricklayer’s helper, the appellee fell from a scaffold twenty feet to the ground and was seriously injured. Upon his application for relief the hearing member of the Industrial Board awarded him compensation at the rate of $30.00 per week for 125 weeks upon a finding that his injuries had resulted in a whole man impairment of 25 percent. On review by the Full Board this award was increased to 200 weeks on the basis of a 40 percent impairment of the man as a whole.

It appears, without dispute, that immediately after the accident the appellee was taken to St.…