Purdy v. Palmore

COMBS, Justice.

We granted discretionary review of this workers compensation case long before we rendered our opinion in the case of Vessels v. Brown-Forman Distillers Corporation and Workers’ Compensation Board, 37 K.L.S. 3 (3/21/90).

Appellant is a sixty-three year old coal miner with a fifth grade education who has spent more than thirty years in the mining industry. On June 23, 1982, while attempting to move a large rock he experienced pain in his low back which radiated into his legs. Appellant has been unable to work since the date of the accident. The application of the Act,…