Hobart Manufacturing Co. v. Johnson

HOWERTON, Judge.

This is a workmen’s compensation case in which the claimant was awarded benefits for 30% permanent, partial disability, with the award being apportioned one-half to the employer and one-half to the Special Fund.

James Robert Johnson, the claimant, experienced low back and neck pain while moving a washing machine from a conveyor belt to his workbench on April 15, 1974.

On this appeal, the employer argued that there was not substantial evidence in the record to sustain the Board’s finding of permanent, partial disability, that the Board erred in fixing the amount of Johnson’s…