Pruitt v. Thermo-Kinetics Industries, Inc.

Goolsby, Judge:

In this workers’ compensation case, the full commission and the circuit court affirmed the single commissioner’s award of total and permanent disability to William J. Pruitt who found Pruitt suffered a 50 percent loss of use of his back because of injuries sustained in a fall from a filter rack while working for Thermo-Kinetics Industries, Inc. ThermoKinetics and its carrier Pennsylvania General Insurance Company appeal, claiming the single commissioner’s finding is not supported by the substantial evidence and challenging the single commissioner’s admission of certain evidence…