PARKER DRILLING CO. v. WESTER

No. 5759.

651 P.2d 842 (1982)

PARKER DRILLING COMPANY and Commercial Union Assurance Company, Appellants, v. Rick WESTER and Alaska Workers' Compensation Board and Alaska Pacific Assurance Company, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

September 24, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sanford M. Gibbs, Hagans, Brown & Gibbs, Anchorage, for appellants.

Michael A. Barcott and Monica Jenicek, Faulkner, Banfield, Doogan & Holmes, Anchorage, for appellees.

Before BURKE, C.J., and RABINOWITZ, CONNOR, MATTHEWS and COMPTON, JJ.


OPINION

PER CURIAM.

Rick Wester, an 18 year old roustabout on a Cook Inlet drilling rig, was seriously injured while working for Parker Drilling Company on April 2, 1975. He fell some thirty feet to the steel deck of the rig, fracturing his hip and right arm, shattering his right elbow, and suffering internal injuries.

Wester was temporarily totally disabled through July 1975. At that time his doctor released him to return to work on a trial basis...

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