Technical Tape Corp. v. Industrial Commission

This is a direct appeal under Rule 302(a) (50 Ill.2d R. 302(a)) by the employer-respondent, Technical Tape Corporation, from a judgment of the circuit court of Jackson County, which affirmed an award of the Industrial Commission in favor of the employee-claimant, Terry Crain, for temporary disability, partial incapacity and permanent disfigurement under the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1969, ch. 48, pars. 138.8(c), (d), and (e)).

On January 31, 1969, Terry Crain, who was working on the three-to-eleven p.m. shift at the Technical Tape Corporation, was told to clean the residue…