Buster v. Chase Bag Co.

This is an appeal by the defendant-employer from a judgment affirming a Workmen’s Compensation Board order declaring claimant permanently and totally disabled.

At the time of hearing on July 1, 1971, claimant was 49 years old. In December 1968 as a bag company employe she had sustained a trip-fall injury to her left arm and shoulder. Continuing symptoms and pain resulted in a shoulder operation on February 23, 1970. Thereafter, she underwent a program of evaluation and treatment in the physical rehabilitation center of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, but limited range of motion and…