Princess Coals Inc. v. Stapleton

MILLIKEN, Judge.

The question involved here is whether the Workmen’s Compensation Board calculated its award under the proper section of the Compensation Act.

The claimant, Curtis Stapleton, a thirty-five-year-old coal miner, lost his middle finger on his right hand and received serious injury to three other fingers in an accident on September 3, 1965, and the Board *63based its award on the section of the Act governing specific losses, saying: “Regardless of the extent or degree of plaintiff’s actual disability, the Board is powerless to award him any greater or other compensation than that…