Chatters v. Dorignac's Food Center

| .MURRAY, J.

Dorignac’s Food Center appeals a judgment of the Office of Workers’ Compensation in favor of Rutherford H. Chatters, III, awarding permanent partial disability benefits, future medical expenses, and attorney’s fees. For the following reasons, we amend the award of permanent partial disability benefits, and affirm the judgment as amended.

FACTS:

Rutherford Chatters was injured on June 7, 1996, while working as a meat cutter at Dorignac’s Food Center. In his claim for benefits, he stated that he cut the index, long and ring fingers of his left hand when the meat he was cutting flew…