Miller v. Wefelmeyer

GARY M. GAERTNER, Judge.

Appellants, G.O. Wefelmeyer and Wausau Insurance Co. (“employer-insurer”), appeal from the award of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission (“the Commission”) granting respondent, Dennis Miller (“employee”), 154 weeks of compensation for complete loss of use of his right eye. We affirm.

On January 6,1982, employee sustained an injury arising out of and in the course of his employment when a sliver of metal became imbedded in his right eye. Employee was treated on that date by Dr. David Brigham, who surgically removed the foreign object from the cornea of…