Spring Valley Coal Co. v. Industrial Commission

On Saturday, August 25, 1917, Peter Sabatini was employed by the plaintiff in error, the Spring Valley Coal Company, in its coal mine at Spring Valley, in Bureau county, and about eleven o’clock of that day a piece of rock or coal struck him in the right eye. He continued to work through the day but when he went home at night he washed his eye. On the following Monday morning he reported his injury to the pit-boss, who gave him an order to a doctor for treatment, and the doctor sent him to an eye specialist at LaSalle. The eye specialist treaded the eye until September 8, when he told…