Youngblood v. Belden Concrete Products

SAMUEL, Judge.

Defendant employer and its compensation insurer appeal from a judgment awarding plaintiff workmen’s compensation benefits of $65 per week for nine weeks and $265 for medical expenses over and above benefits already paid.

These facts are uncontested: Plaintiff was injured in the course and scope of his employment by the defendant, Belden Concrete Products, on November 13, 1974 when he was struck on the shoulder by a heavy piece of iron. On the day of the accident, he was seen in the emergency room at Ochsner Foundation Hospital by Dr. Gerald L. Davis, an orthopedic surgeon. He was…