State ex rel. Cawthorn v. Industrial Commission

R.C. 4123.61, at the time of the initial injury herein, read:

“ * * * [T]he claimant’s or the decedent’s average weekly wage for the year preceding the injury or the date the disability due to the occupational disease begins shall be the weekly wage upon which compensation shall be based. In ascertaining the average weekly wage for the year previous to the injury, or the date the disability due to the occupational disease begins any period of unemployment due to sickness, industrial depression, strike, lockout, or other cause beyond the employee’s control shall be eliminated.

*114“In cases where…