Thompson v. Wilbert Vault Co.

Banke, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal by the claimant in a workers’ compensation case.

The appellant’s right leg was amputated below the knee as the result of a compensable injury which occurred on June 15, 1977. Since then, the employer and insurer have furnished him with an original and one replacement prosthesis, or artificial leg. Both these evidently wore out; and, acting pursuant to the direction of his physician, the appellant purchased a third prosthesis on July 26, 1984, for $1,800. This claim arises from the refusal of the employer and insurer to compensate him for this expense.

The…