Clark v. Keller Williams Furniture Manufacturing

LAVENDER, Justice.

This proceeding to review an award of the State Industrial Court presents the question of whether that court is authorized by law to enter an award in favor of a claimant, who happens to be a deaf mute, for compensation based upon a reduction in claimant’s ability to use his left hand to form “hand signals” or to converse with others using the “sign language”, which was the incidental effect of the disability to the claimant’s left hand resulting from an industrial accident.

• ■ The Industrial Court awarded claimant 23% permanent partial disability to his left hand and that…