Farmer's Insurance Co. v. Buchheit

Melvin Mayfield, Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Commission holding appellee entitled to continuing temporary total disability and medical treatment and authorizing a change of physicians.

The appellee suffered a fractured vertebra on June 22,1984, when a plywood board on which he was standing on a roof broke and he fell twenty-two feet to the ground, landing first on his heels then on his buttocks. At the first hearing, held November 12, 1984, it was determined that appellee was entitled to temporary total disability benefits and it was agreed that he…