York v. State Compensation Commissioner

Kenna, Judge:

This is an appeal by Virgil York from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board entered April 7, 1945, affirming an order of the Compensation Commissioner of January 8, 1945, refusing to reopen the claimant’s application and consider the award of further compensation.

York was injured while working as a coal loader in one of the Koppers Coal Company’s operations at Wharton, Boone County, on November 10, 1939, by a slate fall. At the Laird Memorial Hospital in Montgomery, where he was taken immediately, it was discovered that he had suffered a fractured pelvis and certain…