City of Miami v. Fernandez

WIGGINTON, Judge.

The City of Miami brings this appeal from an order of the Judge of Compensation Claims increasing claimant’s average weekly wage. Claimant cross-appeals that order to the extent it denied his claim for temporary total disability or temporary partial disability benefits. For the following reasons, we reverse the issues raised on appeal and affirm the issue raised on cross-appeal.

Claimant was hired by the City of Miami as a standby laborer with the Department of Solid Waste. He had been working in that capacity for two days when, on January 22,1987, he sustained a crushing…