Gordon v. Dennisson Doors, Inc.

OPINION

FLORES, Judge.

Employer appeals a workers’ compensation order awarding claimant permanent partial disability benefits. The award of partial disability benefits was based on a combination of amputation of an index finger and part of a thumb, phantom pain, and secondary depression. Employer contends that claimant did not have an injury separate and distinct from the amputation of the finger and thumb and is entitled only to benefits pursuant to the scheduled injury section of the Workers’ Compensation Act. See NMSA 1978, § 52-1-43 (Repl.Pamp.1987). We are persuaded that, in this case, the…