Wade Lahar Construction Company v. Howell

JACKSON, Justice.

In the present proceeding we are called upon to review an award of the State Industrial Court finding claimant’s residual disability to have undergone a change from 30.5 per centum permanent (partial) to permanent total.

While engaged for the employer in construction work on July 21, 1956, claimant was in process of removing dirt beneath a pipeline when the ditch suddenly caved in burying him completely. He remained below the surface for an undisclosed length of time. When removed, he was unconscious during a period of undetermined duration. Taken to the hospital, he was later…