State Compensation Insurance Fund v. Industrial Accident Commission

An award of compensation for a carpenter’s loss of a finger in using his power saw at home after sustaining an industrial injury to his eye must be sustained if substantial evidence supports the commission’s finding that the injury to the eye proximately caused the loss of the finger. Petitioner defines causation narrowly and maintains the carpenter’s “negligence” destroyed it. We do not believe that, as a matter of law, this court, accepting petitioner’s definition of causation, can on this record upset the commission’s finding. As an alternate reason in support of the award we submit that…