Reed v. Compensation Commissioner

Rose, Judge:

This appeal was awarded on the petition of Red Jacket Coal Corporation from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board, by which the Workmen’s Compensation Commissioner was directed to allow Tom Reed, a former employee of the appellant, compensation for life as for total permanent disability.

The claimant, Tom Reed, on August 19, 1936, while employed by the appellant in its mine in Mingo County, was injured by a slate fall. The injury was reported by the employer as a fracture of the left femur and a crushing of the right foot, in addition to which Reed, in his application…