Gibson v. Industrial Commission

Claimant, Edward Gibson, appeals from an order of the circuit court of Cook County confirming a decision of the Industrial Commission (Commission) denying him benefits from the respondent, General Motors Corporation.

At the hearing before the arbitrator, the following evidence was introduced. Claimant had been employed by the respondent since 1965, as a painter. On September 20, 1982, while walking down a scaffold behind a foreman, he hit the biceps of his left arm on a steel subbase door which was sticking out. He felt pain but did not notice it much at the time because he was busy checking a…