Bozman v. Industrial Commission

OPINION

HAIRE, Judge.

On this review of an award entered by the Industrial Commission in a workmen’s compensation proceeding, we are required to determine whether a preexisting visual impairment requires a reduction in the scheduled award otherwise payable to a claimant who loses an eye by enucleation as a result of an industrial injury.

Some 45 years prior to the industrial injury in question, the claimant suffered a non-industrial injury which left him functionally blind in his left eye. 1 The facts show that this preexisting visual loss had not decreased the claimant’s earning ability, and…