Jeff Shipley v. C & W Contracting Company

CROCKETT, Justice: Plaintiff Jeff Shipley suffered serious injuries, including fractures of his pelvis and lumbar spine when he was crushed
under a road grader of his employer, C & W Contracting Company, when it slipped off the jacks while he was replacing
a wheel bearing on it near Moab on March 27, 1969. He has been allowed and paid workmen's compensation for temporary total
disability for 120 weeks and has already incurred hospital and medical expenses. In addition, the hearing examiner determined
that the plaintiff should have 50 per cent permanent partial disability and 50 per cent of his future medical expenses. The
Commission adopted and affirmed that order, except that it correctly adjusted the 50 per cent of medical expenses to 100 per
cent.