Weaver v. Tyson Foods

Melvin Mayfield, Judge.

The claimant, Michael Weaver, appeals a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Commission in which it was determined that he had a fifty percent (50%) permanent partial disability as a result of (1) a work-related injury which occurred on September 29, 1986, and (2) a preexisting physical impairment resulting from childhood polio. The Commission based the 50% rating upon the finding of a 20% anatomical impairment and a 30% loss of earning capacity.

The Commission’s opinion stated:

Weaver’s treating physician apportioned 15 % of his present anatomical impairment to the…