Hawkins Brothers Coal Company v. Thacker

REED, Judge.

This is a workmen’s compensation case which is governed by the principles adopted in Osborne v. Johnson, Ky., 432 S.W.2d 800. In the .instant case, the injured employee was awarded compensation benefits for permanent partial disability of 20 percent to the body as a whole. The employee recovered sufficiently from the injury for which compensation was awarded to return to work for the same employer and is earning wages equal to or greater than those earned at the time of the injury. The circuit court affirmed the Board’s award. We affirm the circuit court.

The appellee, Glen…