Superlite Builders & Insurance Co. of North America v. Industrial Commission

OPINION

HAIRE, Judge.

The essential question raised in this review is whether permanent physical impairment resulting solely from nontraumatic recurrent hernias will support an unscheduled award.

Respondent employee Charles Chapman has a history of recurrent hernias going back as far as 1957. The medical and procedural history of the current claim is a complex one. The record indicates that respondent was injured on June 15, 1974 while working as a dock worker for petitioner employer, Superlite Builders. The injury was diagnosed as a bilateral inguinal hernia. On September 23, 1974 surgery was…