J & J Transmissions v. Industrial Commission

Claimant, Jimmy Mattison, filed two applications for adjustment of claim (applications) pursuant to the Workers’ Compensation Act (Act) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 48, par. 138.1 et seq.) as a result of an accident on June 7, 1985 (85 — WC—37151), and a second accident on June 21, 1985 (85 — WC—49098), both occurring during his employment with the respondent, J & J Transmissions. Both accidents involved injury to the claimant’s lower back. Following a consolidated hearing on the two applications, the arbitrator found that the claimant failed to prove that his condition of ill-being was…