Cox v. B.F. Goodrich Co.

BRIGHTMIRE, Vice Chief Judge.

The sole issue presented for review is whether the trial court’s workers’ compensation award of 10 percent permanent partial disability to the body as a whole due to injury to the claimant’s lungs is supported by competent evidence. We hold that it is.

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The operative facts are that the claimant, Donald Cox, was found by the workers’ compensation trial court to have sustained a job-related lung injury during his 36 years of employment with the respondent, B.F. Goodrich, and as a result had 10 percent permanent partial disability to the whole body. The order was…