Walk v. State Compensation Commissioner

Haymond, Judge:

This is an appeal by the employer, Hutchinson Coal Company, from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board of June 11, 1949, affirming an order of the State Compensation Commissioner' of February 25, 1949, which awarded the claimant, William Walk, fifty per cent permanent partial disability for an injury which he sustained as an employee of the company on January 29, 1946. Upon the petition of the employer this appeal was granted by this Court on October 3, 1949.

The claimant was injured in the course and as a result of his employment while operating an electric drill…