Brown v. Balzer Machinery Co.

This is an appeal from a circuit court order granting claimant the maximum award of 320 degrees for unscheduled permanent partial low back disability.

On September 18, 1967 claimant, then aged 42 years, while working for the Balzer Machinery Company, fell over a box and twisted his back. Since then claimant has undergone surgery necessitated by the injury on three occasions: on September 13, 1968, a double level laminectomy at L3-L4 and L4-L5; on July 22, 1970, a triple level back fusion, L3 to the sacrum, decompression of the spinal nerves, and an additional bilateral laminectomy at L3-L4;…