State Ex Rel. Blystone v. Industrial Commission

Relator, John Bly-stone, has commenced a mandamus action in this court alleging that the respondent Industrial Commission abused its discretion in denying his application for violation of a specific safety requirement.

Respondents, Industrial Commission, Administrator James Mayfield and Paratore Interior Systems, Inc., have answered denying any abuse of discretion.

The evidence is the Industrial Commission claim file of relator.

Relator was injured during the course of his employment when he fell from a scaffolding on which he was working from a distance of eighteen to twenty feet off the…