Nash v. Knoblock

GULOTTA, Judge.

While using an electric meat cutting ma-' chine the plaintiff grocery employee, on November 27, 1975, amputated the “distal interphalangeal joint” of the middle finger of the left hand.1 Dr. David J. Vial, the treating physician, assessed a “five percent (5%) disability of the left hand.” Dr. R. C. Grunsten stated, in deposition, that plaintiff had sustained a forty-five percent (45%) disability of the finger or an eight to ten percent disability of the hand. Plaintiff returned to similar type work in a grocery on February 2, 1976.

The trial judge awarded workmen’s compensation…