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ORDER
    VIRGINIA:
    In the Court of Appeals of Virginia on Tuesday the 23rd day of August, 1994.
    Ernest Elmer Clark, Appellant, against Mister Kleen Maintenance Company, et al., Appellees. Mister Kleen Maintenance Company, et al., Appellants, against Ernest Elmer Clark, Appellee.
    Before Chief Judge Moon, Judges Baker, Benton, Coleman, Koontz, Willis, Elder, Bray and Fitzpatrick.
    Counsel
    William C. Walker (Donna White Kearney; Taylor & Walker, P.C., on brief), for Mister Kleen Maintenance Company, et al.
    Stephen W. Robinson (Lynn A. Wurzburg; McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, on brief), for Ernest Elmer Clark.
   UPON A REHEARING EN BANC

Opinion

On December 14, 1993 a panel of this Court affirmed in part and reversed in part a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Commission (commission). See Mister Kleen Maintenance Co. v. Clark, 17 Va. App. 474, 438 S.E.2d 304 (1993). The employer’s petition for rehearing en banc was granted on January 20, 1994, and the mandate of the December 14, 1993 opinion was stayed.

The appeal was reheard en banc on June 2, 1994. For the reasons stated in the original majority opinion, the Court affirms the decision of the commission in all respects except as to the determination of the conclusive presumption of permanent total disability. On that issue, for the reasons stated in the original majority opinion, the finding of the commission is reversed. Accordingly, the stay of the mandate of December 14, 1993 opinion is lifted and the case remanded to the commission for final action consistent with that opinion and its adoption by this order.

Chief Judge Moon and Judges Coleman and Baker, for the reasons stated in Judge Coleman’s dissent from the original decision, 17 Va. App. at 477-78, 438 S.E.2d at 306 (Coleman, J., dissenting), would reverse the findings of the commission and dismiss the claim.