Meade v. Industrial Commission

By this appeal, the petitioner seeks the reversal of a judgment of the circuit court of Peoria County which affirmed the decision of the Industrial Commission and quashed the petitioner’s writs of certiorari and scire facias. On September 19, 1967, the petitioner, employed by W. T. Grant Co. as a maintenance man, was servicing a conveyor belt when a fellow employee activated it and the petitioner’s right hand was caught in the cogs of the machine that pulled the belt.

The petitioner suffered a compound fracture of the proximal end of the middle phalanx of the index finger, a compound fracture…