Reynolds v. Justice Coal Co.

PALMORE, Judge.

Both sides appeal from a judgment affirming an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Board re-opening an agreed award and allowing the claimant, Ray Reynolds, additional compensation. KRS 342.-125, 342.285, 342.290. The employer contends the re-opening was not justified. The claimant contends the increase in compensation should be given retroactive effect to the beginning of the compensable period, whereas the Board made it effective from the time the motion to re-open was filed.

Reynolds was a shot-firer in the employer’s coal mine. On July 22, 1964, a lump of coal propelled by…