Ex Parte Beaver Valley Corp.

This Court issued a writ of certiorari to the Court of Civil Appeals to review a judgment of that court upholding an award for vocational rehabilitation under the workmen's compensation law.

Respondent was injured as a result of an on-the-job accident while employed by Beaver Valley Corporation. He suffered a twenty-five percent permanent partial disability of one arm and a thirty percent permanent partial disability of the other arm.

At the time of the accident he was 27 years old and his job consisted primarily of manual labor. He held a college degree in business administration from the…