General Smelting & Refining, Inc. v. Whitefield

OPINION

FONES, Justice.

This workmen’s compensation case arises out of devastating second and third-degree burn injuries plaintiff, Terry Whitefield, a twenty-five year old manual laborer, received in the course of his employment with General Smelting and Refining. The learned trial judge found plaintiff retained permanent impairment to four scheduled members, assessed his disability at fifty *858percent to the body as a whole and ordered defendant to pay plaintiff the sum of $85.00 per week for 200 weeks and $360.00 for medical-related transportation expenses incurred by plaintiff.

On appeal, the…