Clark v. Shiloh Tank & Erection Co.

Frank Holt, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. Appellant was a welder’s helper for the appellee, Shiloh Tank and Erection Company, when a sheet of steel fell across his right foot amputating the anterior portion of it. A surgical amputation of the foot at mid-ankle was required. The Workmen’s Compensation Commission awarded appellant 125 weeks, the maximum benefit, for the loss of his foot as a scheduled injury under Ark. Stat. Ann. § 81-1313 (c) (11) (Repl. 1960). An additional 22.5 weeks was awarded (or the equivalent of 5%) as a permanent partial disability to the body as a…