Chestnut Flats Coal Co. v. Jones

HOWARD, Judge.

This appeal concerns that portion of a judgment of the Bell Circuit Court which affirmed the Workmen’s Compensation Board’s Opinion and Award insofar as the award imposed all liability for the disability attributable to a traumatic wrist injury solely on the appellant-employer, Chestnut Flats Coal Company, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as the employer).

The Board found the claimant, Albert Jones, to be permanently and partially disabled, in the amount of 20% to the body as a whole, as the result of the wrist injury. The claimant stated that a six-foot-tall oak *651timber fell and hit…