Komendera v. American Bar & Cabinet Manufacturers

Plaintiff Leonard Komendera appeals, by leave granted, an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board affirming the decision of the hearing referee who denied plaintiff’s claim for specific loss of his left hand.

The record in this case reveals that plaintiff, when employed by U. S. Radiator Company as a maintenance carpenter in 1955, severed his left ring finger and thumb in an accident suffered as he worked at a saw table. Subsequently, he entered into the employ of defendant American Bar & Cabinet Manufacturers.

On March 29, 1966, plaintiff caught his left index finger in a “joinder”,…