Clark v. Industrial Commission

STEVENS, Presiding Judge.

On 13 October 1969 Thell W. Clark, herein referred to as the petitioner, experienced an industrially related accident when he fell and sustained a compression fracture of his first lumbar vertebra. Eventually he returned to his original or similar employment which he was able to successfully pursue at the regular wage scale. The petitioner testified as to some limitation of his physical activity and as to pain.

After timely procedural steps a hearing was held at which two orthopedic specialists, William A. Bishop, Jr., M.D., and Melvyn L. Goldsmith, M.D., testified.…