Shipley v. C & W CONTRACTING COMPANY

CROCKETT, Justice:

Plaintiff Jeff Shipley suffered serious injuries, including fractures of his pelvis and lumbar spine when he was crushed under a road grader of his employer, C & W Contracting Company, when it slipped off the jacks while he was replacing a wheel bearing on it near Moab on March 27, 1969. He has been allowed and paid workmen’s compensation for temporary total disability for 120 weeks and has already incurred hospital and medical expenses. In addition, the hearing examiner determined that the plaintiff should have 50 per cent permanent partial disability and 50 per cent of his…