Gennett Lumber Co. v. Sizemore

WADDILL, Commissioner.

This appeal is from a judgment which upheld an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Board overruling appellant’s motion to require appellee to submit to surgery or forfeit future compensation benefits.

Appellee, Estil Sizemore, was injured November 12, 1965 while at work for the appellant, Gennett Lumber Company. Doctor E. S. Wilson, who treated appellee, described the injury as a fracture of the shaft of the left femur and stated that the fractured bone required intramedullary pinning. The pinning was done, using a pin described as a “kirschner nail.”

Shortly after the…