Menozzi v. Industrial Commission

This is an appeal from a decision of the circuit court of Will County confirming an Industrial Commission award of workers’ compensation benefits to the petitioner, Jerald Menozzi. We must decide whether the circuit court ruled properly in confirming the award instead of remanding the cause to the Industrial Commission.

Jerald Menozzi was a truck driver for PTO Services, Inc., the respondent in this case. His job involved heavy lifting. On March 3, 1978, he slipped off the end of a truck while he was loading it. As he fell he struck the middle portion of his lower back on a piece of angle iron…