Johnson v. Pittsburg Metallurgical Co.

MILLIKEN, Judge.

This appeal challenges the conclusion of the Workmen’s Compensation Board as to the degree of claimant’s permanent disability, which, in turn, was approved by the trial court on the appeal from the Board to it. Johnson claims total, permanent disability. The only permanent disability the Board found was partial.

The appellant, Lee Roy Johnson, fifty-seven years of age and head furnace man for the appellee, Pittsburg Metallurgical Company, was severely injured in June 1966 when an ore buggy weighing hundreds of pounds fell across his right foot resulting in a comminuted fracture…