United States Gypsum Co. v. Martin

This is a proceeding by United States Gypsum Company, own risk carrier, to review an award of the State Industrial Commission awarding compensation to respondent, F. E. Martin.

Respondent in his amended claim states that on August 7, 1947, while in the employ of petitioner and while engaged in working in petitioner’s mine, a heavy rock weighing about 500 pounds fell on his left wrist causing an open wound on his left hand which resulted in the total loss of use of the hand.

The trial commissioner, in substance, found that on August 7, 1947, respondent while in the employ of petitioner sustained…