Am. Smelt. Ref. Co. v. Ind. Comm. of Utah

I dissent. The question involved is whether compensation must be denied because the employee refused to submit to certain proposed surgical treatment for his injury. The injury consisted of lacerations and abrasions of his hand and a compound fracture of the middle finger. His wounds were dressed and his finger put in a splint by a doctor at the plant, who instructed him to report to Dr. Pugh at Salt Lake City. He presented himself to Dr. Pugh, who probed and cleansed the wound and made an X-ray examination, discovered the fracture, and proposed to reduce it. He then put on a splint and…