Hutsko v. Chrysler Corporation

This is an appeal on leave granted to review a decision of the Court of Appeals. The decision reversed the workmen’s compensation appeal board. There is no fact issue involved. The question presented is one of law. It is:

Where a claimant has lost the industrial use of his hand in his particular skill but retains a measure of general unskilled industrial use thereof, has he sustained the loss of the hand within the meaning of the specific loss schedule of the workmen’s compensation law?

Plaintiff was employed as a millwright by defendant company. His hand was caught in a fan he was repairing.…