Green v. Atlantic Ice & Coal Co.

Deen, Judge.

The record in this workman’s compensation claim shows the appellant sustained a work-connected injury, a contusion of the little finger of the left hand, on August 4, 1972. He continued to work, lifting ten pound bags of ice, until August 18 when his right hand was bitten by a wasp. The hand was badly swollen and eventually both hands were incapacitated by abscesses diagnosed as due to resultant staphylococcus infection. There was no abscess on the little finger, however, and no testimony directly connecting it with the original injury, although there was a resulting disability…