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Simmons v. City of Charleston2/19/2002
ility greater than the presumptive disability provided for under the scheduled member section." Brown, 316 S.C. at 280, 450 S.E.2d at 58. When a scheduled loss is not accompanied by additional complications affecting another part of the body, the scheduled recovery is exclusive. Singleton v. Young Lumber Co., 236 S.C. 454, 471, 114 S.E.2d 837, 845 (1960) ("Where the injury is confined to the scheduled member, and there is no impairment of any other part of the body because of such injury, the employee is limited to the scheduled compensation....").
All that is required is that the injury to a scheduled member also affect another body part. Here, Simmons presented evidence his right leg remained swollen and painful as of the date of the hearing before the single commissioner. We agree that substantial evidence supports the commission's finding that Simmons suffered additional complications to another part of the body, other than the amputated left leg, and was thus entitled to proceed under the general disability statute.
CONCLUSION
Accordingly, for the foregoing reasons, the order on appeal is AFFIRMED.
CURETON, STILWELL and SHULER, JJ., concur.
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