Hampton v. Big Boy Steel Erection

RICHARD B. TEITELMAN, Judge.

In this workers’ compensation case, Big Boy Steel Erection (employer) appeals from the final award of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission (commission) allowing compensation and modifying the award of the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ). The ALJ found that Larry Hampton (claimant) had sustained a 25% permanent partial disability of the body as a whole, caused by an injury he sustained to his back while working as an ironwork-er. The commission modified the award and found permanent and total disability. The employer appeals, contending that the commission…