The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that a septuagenarian worker was entitled to 425 weeks of benefits for his permanent partial disability from a bulldozer accident.
Case: Lafarge Holcim v. Swinford, No. 2018-CA-000414-WC, 09/07/2018, published.
Facts: James Swinford has a sixth-grade education and no vocational training. He began working for Lafarge Holcim’s predecessor in 1973.
In the 1990s, Swinford underwent surgery on his cervical spine to address nerve damage in his hands. The surgery did not provide any significant improvement in symptoms in his neck and upper extremities, and...
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