Pykonen v. State Accident Insurance Fund

This is a workmen’s compensation case in which the injured claimant contends he should receive a permanent total disability award.

While working as a logger on February 22, 1966, he was struck in the back by a falling snag. The initial objective findings of injury included multiple fractures of the right ribs, fracture of the right clavicle, fracture of lower right fibula, some hemopneumothorax and ileus. Some disorientation, hallucinations and amnesia were noted during his hospitalization following the accident and it was subsequently determined that he had probably suffered some brain damage.