Harrison v. Cleaning Concepts, Inc.

OPINION

TOMLJANOYICH, Justice.

The Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals reversed, by panel majority, the compensation judge’s findings as to the date of permanent total disability and extent of permanency. We reverse and reinstate the findings of the compensation judge.

In June 1984, Bobby Harrison sustained a low back injury in Texas while working as a heavy equipment operator for Phillips Construction Company. As a result of the injury, on May 24, 1985, employee underwent lumbar decompression and two-level inter-transverse fusion surgery. After a period of recovery and an authorization to…