Karlen v. Department of Labor & Industries

On December 3, 1951, the superior court entered a judgment affirming an order of the board of industrial insurance appeals. The order allowed a pension to the widow of a deceased workman. The employer has appealed from the judgment.

On February 25, 1948, Joe Mastrapa was in the employ of the Eatonville Lumber Co. He slipped and fell from a planing machine, receiving a blow on his head and a dislocation of a metacarpal joint of the left hand. No physical or organic evidence of head injury developed. The hand injury required extended medical treatment and ultimately surgery. The result of the…