the Claim of Forest Westfall v. Linesville Construction Co.

Appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed July 18, 1975, which held that claimant had sustained a 95% loss of use of the left hand and that he was not totally and permanently disabled within the meaning of section 15 (subd 8, par [c]) of the Workmen’s Compensation Law. Claimant, a 44-year-old pipe line construction worker, suffered an -injury to his left eye on September 8, 1971. The injury resulted in the enucleation of the eye. Twenty years previously while employed in Ohio, claimant sustained an injury to his left hand resulting in the amputation of four fingers of…