United Park City Mines Company v. John W‪.‬

CROCKETT, Justice. Plaintiff United Park City Mines Company seeks reversal of an order of the Industrial Commission granting defendant John W. Prescott workman's compensation on the basis of total and permanent disability. Mr. Prescott, a man 64 years old at the time of his injury, had been employed by the plaintiff mining company and its predecessor for 33 years, during the last 31 of which he had worked as a motorman on its underground railroad. On July 13, 1961, while he was engaged in uncoupling cars, the train started and he was run over by the locomotive, causing him numerous and grievous injuries. His left leg was severed through the knee joint and the bone and muscles above so badly damaged that even with amputation below the thigh he still does not have a good stump for the artificial limb he is able to wear with some difficulty.