Ripley v. Anderson Cotton Mills

Mr. Associate Justice Tayror

delivered the unanimous opinion of the Court.

This is a Workmen’s Compensation case in which claimant was awarded twenty-five (25%) per cent, functional loss of use of the right eye, ten (10%) per cent, functional loss of use of the left eye, and One Thousand ($1,000.00), Dollars for disfigurement.

The claimant, Carl T. Ripley, while employed in the machine shop of the Anderson Cotton Mills of Anderson, South Carolina, received injuries as the result of an explosion which blew him completely from the building, as a result of which he filed claim for injuries to his…