Smith v. Hale

OPINION

FONES, Chief Justice.

This appeal of a workmen’s compensation award of fifty (50%) percent permanent partial disability to the body as a whole, is based upon an insistence that it was error to award more than ten (10%) percent of the right upper extremity because that was the opinion of the treating orthopedic physician.

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Employee, Hale, was employed as a plumber’s and sheet metal helper. He was walking on a ceiling beam between the roof and ceiling at a school building when he fell through the ceiling, landing on his head, right shoulder and back on the concrete floor after striking a…