Dawson's Charter Service v. Chin

ADKINS, Judge.

This is a worker’s compensation case. The worker, appellee, Michael Chin, suffered an eye injury that rendered his right eye effectively useless without corrective lenses. With corrective lenses, he has 20/20 vision in that eye. The question is whether, under those circumstances, Chin’s right eye was 100 percent disabled.

Chin was employed by appellant, Dawson’s Charter Service. 1 While on the job one day, he was hammering a piece of metal. A metal fragment lodged in his right eye. The fragment was surgically removed, but a cataract developed. This was subsequently excised, along…