Allen v. Kalamazoo Paraffine Co.

Defendants appeal from an award of the department of labor and industry, granting ■plaintiff compensation for the loss of vision in his right eye, at the rate of $21 per week for 150 weeks, beginning September 27, 1944.

The facts are not in dispute. Plaintiff, James Hiram Allen, was injured on July 21, 1943, while in the employ of the Kalamazoo Paraffine Company, when a splinter from a nail' or metal from a hoop entered his right eye while he was heading barrels. The, parties stipulated that plaintiff lost industrial vision of the eye on September 27,1944. It appears that under the statute in…