Dacus Casket Co. v. Hardy

Frank Holt, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. Appellee fell and sustained a compensable back injury on January 26, 1968, while lifting a casket. After a spinal disc operation, she returned to work on June 24, 1968, and on February 6, 1969, sustained a second injury by a fall. A referee determined that as a result of the first injury, appellee had sustained a 15% permanent partial impairment of the body as a whole and that her second injury did not result in any permanent disability. On appeal the full commission increased the award for the first injury to 25% permanent partial…