Steiner v. Industrial Commission

The claimant’s employer, Granite City Steel Company, appealed under Rule 302(a) (87 Ill. 2d R. 302(a)) from a judgment of the circuit court of Madison County which set aside a decision of the Industrial Commission on the ground that it was contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence.

On June 5, 1979, the claimant, William Steiner, was employed as a security guard at Granite City Steel Company. He testified that as he was descending a flight of stairs he stepped on a sewer drain, which collapsed and caused him to twist his back. The claimant testified that he felt “as if [he] pulled a…