Ballenger v. Southern Worsted Corp.

Mr. Associate Justice Stukes

delivered the unamious opinion of the Court.

This appeal is from an award of workmen’s compensation by the Industrial Commission (affirmed by the Circuit Court) upon the sole ground of the alleged lack of evidence of causal connection between the accident and the injury. Claimant was about his duties as an employee of the appellant, Southern Worsted Corporation, when the contents of a dye kettle, over which he was working, erupted, and the hot liquid went over his upper body, including his face and eyes; more got into his left eye than his right. The kettle was not…