Chavez v. Industrial Commission

JACOBSON, Judge.

This review of a decision of the Industrial Commission requires a determination as to the applicable scheduled injury provision of A.R.S. § 23-1044, subsec. B (1956), where the injured employee lost all hearing in one ear and suffered a partial loss of hearing (30%) in the other ear in an industrially related accident.1

Petitioner suffered a total loss of hearing in his left ear and a 30 percent loss of hearing in his right ear. The Commission found that the employee had sustained a binaural (pertaining to both ears) hearing loss of 42 percent. The Commission granted petitioner…