Bell Coal Co. v. Jackson

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Bees

Affirming.

The appellee, Obie Jackson, an employee of the Bell Coal Company, received severe burns in an explosion in the mine of the employer on September 22, 1942. He was in a hospital 26 days and was paid $220.70 for temporary total disability. On December 21, 1942, he filed with the Workmen’s Compensation Board a claim for compensation in which he stated that he had suffered total permanent disability as a result of injuries sustained in the explosion. A referee of the board found that the claimant was disabled to the extent of 15 per cent, to the body as a…