The Veteran's right ear hearing loss, traumatic arthritis of the right fifth finger, residual scar of the right hand secondary to traumatic arthritis, and painful motion of the right ring finger are all granted. The Veteran is assigned a 10% disability rating for each condition.
The deciding factor: The evidence supports service connection for these conditions based on in-service noise exposure and degenerative joint disease resulting from those exposures.
- Claimed conditions
- Right ear hearing loss, Traumatic arthritis of the right fifth finger, Residual scar of the right hand secondary to traumatic arthritis, Painful motion of the right ring finger secondary to traumatic arthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- November 22, 2019
- Citation
- 19188668
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