by Admin
24. September 2011 16:48
11 IWCC 798
Award: 50% of R (dominant) Hand + 5% of L Hand
Accident: Mud jacker shot a rock that hit P in the L ankle, which knocked P down. P fell on his outstretched R hand. Then P did modified duty mostly using just the L hand and developed numbness and weakness in L hand too. P's work contributed to Bilateral Carpal Tunnel Syndrome too.
Injury: R two piece intra-articular distal radial fracture. Surgery with multiple screws and 4 inch metal plate. Bilateral Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, no surgery.
Restrictions: Is working, taking tylenol, has persistent numbness and weakness in both hands, keeps doing "arduous" work that arbitrator believed P really does