Lofgren v. Pieper Farms

OPINION

COYNE, Justice.

Certiorari on the relation of employee, Dale L. Lofgren, to review a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals remanding the matter for further proceedings. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

Since 1975, the employee worked as a farmhand for Pieper Farms. On March 27, 1985, he sustained an injury to his right eye when a small fragment of metal entered the eye. He had been holding a piece of metal over an anvil while his employer pounded it with a sledgehammer, attempting to straighten it out. The employee felt a needle-like sensation in the eye, but when…