Cropp v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner

Miller, Justice:

This workmen’s compensation case involves the question of whether an employee who has previously been granted a permanent total disability award may obtain additional workmen’s compensation benefits arising out of a second industrial accident.

The claimant received a permanent total disability award after sustaining burns over 80 percent of his body on April 23, 1965, while an employee of Blaw-Knox Foundry. Thereafter, on June 10, 1969, Blaw-Knox reemployed the claimant and he worked as a full-time employee until February 27, 1975, when he sustained an injury to his leg while…