Shockley v. Industrial Commission

The Industrial Commission affirmed an arbitrator’s award of $105.50 per week for 64 weeks for temporary total incapacity, and of $83.20 per week for 38 3/8 weeks for “permanent and complete loss of use of the left foot to the extent of 25% thereof” to the claimant, Barney Shockley. On two separate occasions, in September 1973 and April 1975, while in the course of his employment as a miner and driller with Ozark Mahoning Co. (hereafter Ozark), the claimant sustained injuries to his left foot and ankle. The claimant, contending the award was insufficient, appealed to the circuit court of…