D'Amico Macaroni Co. v. Industrial Commission

On March 16, 1966, the claimant, Roosevelt Lloyd, was employed as a janitor by the respondent, D’Amico Macaroni Company. On that date he became involved in an altercation with a fellow employee, which concededly arose out of and in the course of his employment, and received an injury to his right eye necessitating its enucleation. An arbitrator awarded claimant 10 weeks compensation for the enucleation and an additional 10 weeks for “serious and permanent disfigurement” to his face, apparently relying upon both section 8(e) of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, relating to the loss of an eye,…