Stallworth v. Chrysler Corp.

Defendant appeals by leave granted from the award of benefits granted plaintiff by the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board.

Plaintiff was injured on February 24, 1978, while working at the defendant’s McGraw Glass Plant as a glass seamer. He sustained a laceration of his right wrist resulting in injury to his tendons, radial artery and median nerve. Defendant began voluntarily paying plaintiff full compensation.

On January 30, 1979, Dr. Ned Winkleman of the division of plastic surgery at Henry Ford Hospital indicated that plaintiff could return to light work with certain restrictions. Plaintiff…