Kirkendall v. STAMPER'S J & J TIRE COMPANY

The issue in this workmen’s compensation: appeal is the extent of claimant’s permanent disability arising from an industrial injury sustained in 1966.

In October 1966, while employed as operator of a front end rack by Stamper’s J & J Tire Company, claimant fell and sustained a compression fracture of his LI lumbar vertebra. At the time of this injury claimant was 58 years of age. He was hospitalized for 14 days and, following a period of conservative treatment and recuperation, returned to perform light work in February 1967. He was released for full-time work about a month later. However, the…