Cook v. Industrial Commission

PRESIDING JUSTICE BARRY

delivered the opinion of the court:

The petitioner, Robert E. Cook, filed an application for adjustment of claim under the Workers’ Compensation Act (the Act) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 48, par. 138.1 et seq.), for a knee injury suffered while he was employed by the respondent, Caterpillar Tractor Company. An arbitrator awarded the petitioner temporary total and permanent partial disability. The Industrial Commission (the Commission) reversed the arbitrator’s award, finding that the petitioner failed to prove that he sustained an accidental injury arising out of and in…