Seneca Coal Co. v. Carter

Citations

• 205 P. 495
• 85 Okla. 220
• 1922 OK 90
• 1922 Okla. LEXIS 69

Syllabus

<p>(Syllabus.)</p> <p>1. Master and Servant — Workmen’s Compensation Law — Award—Permanent Disfigurement.</p> <p>Section 6, art. 2, c. 246, -Session Laws 1916, as amended by section - 9, c. 14, Session Laws 1919, construed, and held to authorize the State Industrial Commission to award an injured employe compensation for a -permanent disfigurement of the face, although such injured employe -had been awarded compensation for the loss of an eye.</p> <p>2. Same — Loss of Eye.</p> <p>Where an injured employe has -been awarded compensation for specific injuries, such as the loss of an eye, the State Industrial Commission, in awarding compensation for a permanent disfigurement of the face, must consider to- what extent the loss of the oye has contributed to the disfigurement of the injured employe, in determining the proper amount to toe awarded such injured employe.</p> <p>3. Same..</p> <p>Where an injured employe has been compensated for a specific injury, such injured employe is not entitled .to compensation again for such injury as constituting a part of a permanent disfigurement.</p>