Ward v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner

Calhoun, Judge:

This workmen’s compensation case is before the Court on appeal by the employer, Gauley Coal & Coke Company, from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board entered on May 25, 1970, which affirmed an order entered on December 16, 1969, by the State Workmen’s Compensation Commissioner, granting the claimant a total permanent disability award.

The claimant sustained a compensable injury to his back on October 18, 1965, while working in a coal mine. His injury was diagnosed by Dr. James Glasscock of Richwood, West Virginia,, as a compression fracture of the first lumbar…