The veteran's service-connected disabilities, including a T4 fracture and left hand fractures, do not render him unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation.
The deciding factor: The combined rating for the veteran's service-connected disabilities is 60%, which meets the basic criteria for consideration of entitlement to TDIU. However, the evidence does not support that his disabilities alone are severe enough to prevent him from securing and following any form of employment.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a T4 fracture, residuals of fracture dislocations at the second and third metacarpal joints of the left hand, residuals of a rib fracture
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- September 18, 2000
- Citation
- 0024871
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- Dismissed
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