Boise Cascade Corp. v. Jackson

WOODALL, Justice.

On October 30, 2001, Tommie L. Jackson was employed by Boise Cascade Corporation (“the employer”). On that date, while in the course of his employment, Jackson jumped from a ladder, landed on a concrete floor, and thereby suffered a severely comminuted fracture of the left cal-caneus, i.e., a broken left heel bone. Jackson later filed a workers’ compensation action against the employer in the Clarke Circuit Court. After an ore tenus hearing, the trial court determined that Jackson had sustained a nonscheduled injury that resulted in a permanent total disability, and it…