Heaton v. Compensation Commissioner

Litz, Judge:

This is an appeal by an injured employee from the ruling of the. commission (composed of the Governor, Commissioner of Health and Commissioner of Labor, and commonly called the compensation appeal board), affirming the action of the compensation commissioner in refusing to grant a third award to the claimant, Matt Heaton.

August 29, 1926, while the claimant was charging an electric storage battery, in the course of his employment as a servant of the Washington Irving Coal Company, the „battery exploded, causing sulphuric acid therefrom to be cast into his eyes, which resulted, as…