Goins v. Kayser-Roth Hosiery, Inc.

OPINION

HARBISON, Chief Justice.

In this worker’s compensation case the employer has appealed from an award of 60% permanent partial disability to the body as a whole and has raised several questions incidental thereto.

There is little dispute as to the material facts. The employee, Mrs. Shirley Goins, had been employed at the Kayser-Roth Hosiery Mill in Dayton for over 12 years when she slipped and fell inside the plant in the early morning hours of February 3, 1986. The accident happened shortly before she was to begin her shift at 6 a.m. Appellant was 49 years of age at the time of the…