Cleator v. Industrial Commission

OPINION

WREN, Chief Judge.

In this special action review of an Industrial Commission award, petitioner challenges the administrative law judge’s award that she was stationary with a 30 percent permanent scheduled disability. It is her contention that she is entitled to a program of vocational rehabilitation as a part of active medical treatment.

At the time of the injury to her knee on April 24, 1976, petitioner was employed at Hobo Joe’s as a waitress, an occupation she had pursued for some six years prior to the injury. She was treated by Dr. Hugh Thompson, III who thereafter performed two…