Claim of Orr v. Industrial Commission

PIERCE, Judge.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. Claimant, Curtis Orr, seeks review on the ground that he was not awarded temporary total disability benefits at the maximum rate. The Department of Corrections and its insurer, the State Compensation Fund (the Department), also seek review, on the ground that if liability exists at all, it is that of Delta County and not the Department. We set aside the order.

Claimant was confined in the state penal facility at Delta, and was under the supervision of the Department. The Department permitted prisoners to work outside the prison facility on…