Industrial Commission v. Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp.

This is a workmen’s compensation case in which claimant, John J. Ferencik, was awarded compensation for permanent total disability, resulting from injuries sustained while employed by The Colorado Fuel & Iron Corporation. The district court reversed this award of the Industrial Commission. The commission and claimant seek reversal contending that under the record claimant is entitled to an award for total permanent disability.

Claimant had been employed by The Colorado Fuel Iron Corporation for many years. On March 14, 1955, while engaged in cutting down an ash hopper with a blow torch on an I…