City Laundry & Linen Supply v. Coster

MILLS, Judge.

This is a workers’ compensation appeal by the employer/carrier from an order awarding permanent partial disability benefits and attorney’s fees. The propriety of both awards is at issue. We affirm.

Coster worked in the City Laundry and Linen Supply warehouse. He suffered from a duodenal ulcer. In April 1977, Dr. Cantwell performed an operation known as a vajectomy (the cutting of an opening from the stomach to the duodenum). Cost-er was released for light work on 12 May 1977.

On 17 May 1977, Coster was lifting at work when he felt a pain in his stomach. Dr. Cantwell diagnosed a…