Espey v. Industrial Commission

OPINION

NELSON, Judge.

Petitioner, Daniel H. Espey, questions an award of the Industrial Commission granting benefits for a scheduled 5% permanent partial impairment of the right major arm, contending that the award should have been for an unscheduled disability.

The industrial injury in question occurred on June 1, 1974, when Espey was working as a welder trainee for Magma Copper Company. A sander slipped out of his hand, causing a piece of steel to strike him in the arm, which resulted in the arm swelling. Espey underwent a fasciotomy at that time, which is a surgical excision of strips of the…