Dudley v. Ferguson Trucking Company

McGHEE, Justice.

The defendants, employer and insurer, appeal from a judgment of the district court awarding claimant, employee, workmen’s compensation benefits.

Claimant sustained a compensable injury when he was helping to load oil well drilling equipment on a truck. A drill collar rolled off a flat bed and struck his right, foot. It was necessary that the great toe on this foot be amputated through the proximal portion of the first phalanx. Claimant was hospitalized at Farmington, New Mexico, in excess of two and one-half months, during which time four operations were performed on his foot.…