International Vermiculite Co. v. Industrial Commission

The sole issue presented by the employer, International Vermiculite Company, in this workmen’s compensation case is whether compensation awarded by the arbitrator, affirmed by the Industrial Commission and confirmed by the circuit court of Sangamon County, is contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence.

No useful purpose would be served by a detailed recitation of the facts. Suffice it to say that the claimant, Thomas H. Grady, a 47-year-old production foreman, was climbing the outside of a 20-foot bin during the course of his employment on March 17, 1975, when he felt a sharp pain in the…