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Session Laws, 1970
Volume 695, Page 1029   View pdf image
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Marvin Mandel, Governor                        1029

Great toe—For the loss of a great toe, [twenty-five] forty weeks.

Other toes—For the loss of one of the toes, other than the great
toe, ten weeks.

Hand—For the loss of a hand, [one hundred and ninety-six]
throe hundred TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY weeks.

Arm—For the loss of an arm, [two hundred and fifty-two] three

hundred and eighty HUNDRED weeks.

Foot—For the loss of a foot, [one hundred and seventy-five] two
hundred sixty-five
FIFTY weeks.

Leg—For the loss of a leg, [two hundred and fifty-two] three
hundred and eighty
weeks.

Eye—For the loss of an eye, [two] three hundred TWO HUN-
DRED FIFTY weeks.

Hearing—For the total loss of hearing of one ear, [seventy-five]
one hundred twenty-five weeks; for the total loss of hearing of both
ears, [one] two hundred and seventy-five FIFTY weeks.

Septum—For a perforated nasal septum, twenty weeks.

[(3a.) Same—Same—Serious disability.

A person who receives under subsection (3) of this section an
award for a period of one hundred and seventy-five weeks or more is
thereby considered to have a serious disability. He automatically
shall be entitled to (in addition to the award under subsection (3)
an extra award of a number of weeks equal to one-third (computed
to the nearest whole number) of the number of weeks awarded under
subsection (3); and the award of compensation to him in no case
shall exceed forty dollars per week; and as to him the maximum
limitation of $12,500 shall not apply. This subsection, to the extent
of any inconsistency, prevails over subsection (3); but otherwise
subsection (3) applies to persons covered by this subsection. Pro-
vided, however, that any additional compensation for permanent
partial disability on a petition to reopen shall not increase the amount
of compensation previously awarded and paid.]

36.

(4) Same—Other cases.—(a) In all other cases of disability
other than those specifically enumerated disabilities set forth in sub-
section (3) of this section, which disability is partial in character,
but permanent in quality, the Commission shall determine the por-
tion or percentage by which the industrial use of the employee's body
was impaired as a result of the injury and in determining such
portion or percentage of impairment resulting in an industrial loss
the Commission shall take into consideration, among other things,
the nature of the physical injury, the occupation, experience, train-
ing and age of the injured employee at the time of injury, and shall
award compensation in such proportion as the determined loss bears
to the sum of [$12,500] $17,500, the said compensation to be paid
weekly at the rate of sixty-six and two-thirds per centum of the
average weekly wages, in no case to exceed [twenty-five] thirty-five
dollars per week, and not less than a minimum of [fifteen] twenty-
five
dollars per week unless the employee's established weekly wages

 

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