Claim of Clemens v. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp.

Appeal by a self-insured employer from a decision which awarded compensation for a 62%% schedule loss of use of the right hand resulting from an accidental injury to the right wrist, being a fracture of the right carpal navicular bone, found to have occurred in January, 1960, while claimant was working as a helper on a machine designed to finish and straighten steel tubes and when a four-inch tube weighing about 160 pounds slipped off a die, went up in the air and, when claimant attempted to eateh it, with his hand extended, struck the hand and forced it “all the way back”. The operator of…