Munger v. State Accident Insurance Fund Corp.

Claimant appeals from an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board reversing the referee’s award of permanent total disability and awarding him 75 percent permanent partial disability. We reverse and reinstate the referee’s order.

Claimant is in his mid-50s, has an eighth- to tenth-grade educational level and is experienced as a truck driver and laborer. He injured his back at work, suffering a herniated intervertebral disc. He has had two lumbo-sacral surgeries, the last of which left him with a weakness in the right leg and also an inability to urinate that a urologist diagnosed as a…