Gray v. A. L. Beller & Home Indemnity Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hatcher, C.:

This is an appeal from an award determining the rating for permanent partial disability in a workmens compensation case.

It would appear that the claimant was an illiterate laborer 47 years of age. He was employed as a common laborer in construction work. He contends that on July 19, 1963, he was engaged in unloading a truck of sacks of cement weighing some 96 pounds. Sometime between 9 and 10 o’clock a. m. he picked up a sack to hand to a co-worker, Mr. E. L. Gray. As he turned, he stepped into a hole in the bed of the truck causing a catch…