Blackburn v. Allied Chemical Corp.

*601OPINION

HARBISON, Chief Justice.

In this worker’s compensation case, the employer and its insurer appealed from an award of permanent total disability.

It is conceded that the employee sustained a compensable injury on January 23, 1978, when she fell at work. She fractured the head and neck of her left femur. At that time she was forty-nine years of age.

Appellee’s injuries were treated by Dr. Charles A. Gouffon, an orthopedic surgeon. He reduced the fracture by surgery, inserting a metal pin into the femur to hold the fragments together for healing. He testified that the employee reached maximum…