Claim of Earl v. Davis Box Toe Co.

Appeal by the employer and the State Insurance Fund from an award made by the State Industrial Board to claimant for a fifty per cent loss of use of the left thumb, covering the period from December 28, 1937, to September 16, 1938. Claimant was employed as a cutter. On July 26, 1922, he sustained injuries to the four fingers of his left hand, for which an award was made based upon a ninety per cent permanent loss of use of such hand. On December 28, 1937, while engaged in the same occupation for another employer, the distal two-thirds of the terminal phalanx of the left thumb was amputated,…