Rodgers v. Industrial Commission

LOCKWOOD, Justice:

The issue presented by this case is essentially one involving successive scheduled injuries to the same extremity under A.R. S. § 23-1044. 1

The pertinent facts are as follows: In 1964, the claimant petitioner William F. Rodgers suffered his first industrial injury-consisting of the loss of two of the fingers ■and the ulnar half of the palm of his right Tiand. This first injury resulted in a Commission award of scheduled benefits under AR.S. § 23-1044, subsec. B for a 45 per cent functional loss of use of the right hand. As a result of a subsequent industrial injury in 1968…