Harrison v. Animas Valley Auto and Truck Repair

RANSOM, Justice,

specially concurring.

A worker who suffers an injury to a scheduled member of his body is limited to compensation under the scheduled injury provisions of the Worker’s Compensation Act, unless that injury renders him totally disabled as a whole. Hise Constr. v. Candelaria, 98 N.M. 759, 652 P.2d 1210 (1982). However, the scheduled injury provisions are not exclusive if, in addition to impairment of the scheduled member, there is separate and distinct impairment to other parts of the body with resulting partial disability as a whole. Id.

Here, the worker was not totally disabled.…