Diaz v. Industrial Commission

STEVENS, Judge.

Bartholome H. Diaz, the petitioner herein, who had worked for the respondent employer in its smelter in the petitioner’s native city of Douglas for 15 years as a furnace man and as a tapper, sustained an industrially related back injury on 14 March 1969. Surgery was required and performed. A 1971 consultation of three doctors rated his general physical functional impairment at 10%. His average monthly wage at the time of his injury was $826.40.

In the file certified to this Court we find a typewritten memorandum dated 15 July 1971 on which is an unsigned longhand endorsement to…