Cook v. Paducah Recapping Service

VANCE, Justice.

The question is whether a worker who has sustained a work-related functional impairment to the body as a whole which does not result in any occupational disability under the standards set forth in K.R.S. 342.-620(12) and in Osborne v. Johnson, Ky., 432 S.W.2d 800 (1968), is entitled under K.R.S. 342.730(l)(b) to an award based solely upon his functional impairment.

This is an appeal, transferred directly to this court, from a judgment of the McCracken Circuit Court which affirmed an award of the Workers’ Compensation Board.

The appellant, Richard Cook, alleges that he sustained a…