Claim of Clark v. Binghamton Container Co.

This is an appeal by the employer and its insurance carrier from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed October 25, 1973, which affirmed awards to the claimant for causally related total disability from May 15, 1972 to July 31, 1972 and for a 50% related partial disability from July 31, 1972 to March 19, 1973.

It is undisputed that on November 5, 1971 claimant sustained a compensable accidental injury to his back and that throughout the period for which the awards were affirmed by the board, the claimant continued to have a causally related disability as a result of the…