Claim of Agardi v. Town of Islip

Appeal by an employer and its insurance carrier from a decision which awarded compensation to claimant, a beach attendant, for loss of vision of the left eye, eoncededly of 100%, found by the board to be causally related to an accident which occurred when a chemical cleaning solution was splashed into the eye, causing deep corneal burns; apj>ellants denying causal relationship and attributing claimant’s loss of vision to a mature senile cataract unrelated to the accident. Claimant denied knowledge of any prior “ eye conditions to [his] left eye”. He claimed equal and useful vision in both…