Special Indemnity Fund v. Ring

This is an original proceeding brought by Special Indemnity Fund to review an award of the State Industrial Commission in favor of respondent, Glen O. Ring. An award was also entered against the employer of respondent, General Dye Works.

Respondent in due time filed his first notice of injury and claim for compensation in which it is stated that on March 5, 1946, while in the employ of General Dye Works he received an injury to several fingers of his right hand; that he was at that time a physically impaired person by reason of having sustained a prior injury to the hand.

The trial commissioner…