Blevins v. Atlantic Steel Co.

McMurray, Chief Judge.

This is a workers’ compensation case. The claimant employee was paid workers’ compensation by his employer after he received an injury to his left eye. It affected his vision in the other eye. At that particular point in time he was earning $509 average weekly wage.

The employer put him back to work making $301 at a different job (payroll clerk) at diminished earnings and reduced his payments to permanent partial disability of 10% to his right and left eye (specific member injury) by reason of a letter the employer received from claimant’s doctor. The doctor determined…