Second Injury Fund v. Riceland Foods, Inc.

Melvin Mayfield, Judge.

This is an appeal from a Workers’ Compensation Commission decision holding the Second Injury Fund liable for all of claimant’s disability in excess of the amount previously paid by the employer for a 15% permanent disability to the claimant’s left leg.

The record reveals that in 1946 the claimant, Harry L. Brown, began working for the appellee, Riceland Foods. In 1955, he was critically injured when he inhaled toxic gas while performing his duties for Riceland. Although it was first thought that he would be unable to return to work, or even survive, he made a miraculous…