Claim of Flagg v. GAF Corp.

Appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed May 9, 1975, which found that the claimant had sustained a 100% schedule loss of his right index finger. The claimant, as the result of an industrial accident, had a portion of his right index finger amputated. The record contains an operative report which states that the intention was to amputate at the point of the distal inter-phalangeal joint and indicates that the surgical procedure involved the second phalange or middle phalanx of the finger. The board’s medical examiner reported on August 26, 1974 that the amputation…