Sizemore Mining Co. v. Tackett

WINTERSHEIMER, Judge.

This appeal was taken from a judgment of the Floyd Circuit Court entered July 6, 1976, confirming a Workmen’s Compensation Board award of 100% occupational disability to Plaintiff/Appellee Winston Tack-ett. The claim is made by a thirty-two year old man with ah eighth grade education and three dependents, who injured his back on October 31, 1974, when he fell against a coal loading machine while working in an underground mine. Four physicians examined the claimant. Dr. Kim, the treating physician, sent him back to work on December 9, 1974. Dr. Musgrave stated that he was…