Harry Gordon Scrap Materials, Inc. v. Davis

CULLEN, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a circuit court judgment affirming a Workmen’s Compensation Board award based upon a finding that the claimant had sustained a 20 percent partial disability.

Appellee Willie Davis, Sr., a manual laborer with a fourth-grade education, fractured his right wrist on June 9, 1969, in a work-connected accident while he was employed by appellant Harry Gordon Scrap Materials, Inc. He fell twelve feet from the roof to the floor of a railroad box car. He testified that the fall made him “ . . . awfully sick ...” and that he “ . . kind of passed out for a few…