Brown v. Treasurer of Missouri

CARL R. GAERTNER, Judge.

Worker’s compensation claimant, George Brown, appeals from the decision of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission affirming the administrative law judge’s denial of permanent total disability benefits from the Second Injury Fund. We reverse and remand.

At the time of the hearing Brown was sixty years old with a high school education. He had been a mechanic for twenty years prior to sustaining a back injury in 1962 which necessitated a lumbar laminec-tomy and additional low back surgery in 1965. Because of this injury, Brown was forced to seek less physically…