Fogle v. Sedgwick County

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Miller, J.:

This is an appeal by the claimant, Ricky Duane Fogle, from a workers’ compensation award. Fogle sustained injury when he fell from a balcony while fighting a fire. He landed on an air bottle that was strapped to his back. His only permanent disability is to his left arm. The claimant, contending that the situs of the injury was to a spinal nerve, sought compensation for permanent partial disability of the body as a whole under K.S.A. 44-510e. The administrative law judge granted an award based upon loss of use of the arm, a “scheduled…