Liberty Engineering & Manufacturing Co. v. Granger

VANCE, Judge.

The question presented by this appeal is whether a worker who has sustained an injury of appreciable proportions but who has returned to work at an increase in pay may be awarded permanent-partial benefits in excess of his functional disability rating.

Under Osborne v. Johnson, Ky., 432 S.W.2d 800 (1968), loss of earnings was established as the measure of occupational disability but even where no immediate loss of wages existed the board could make an award of permanent-partial occupational disability when the worker had suffered an injury of appreciable proportions which probably…