Van Waters & Rogers v. Workman

HOWE, Justice:

Plaintiffs Van Waters & Rogers and its insurance carrier, Hartford Insurance Company, seek to set aside an Industrial Commission order denying them a 15% reduction in worker’s compensation payable by them to defendant Kenneth R. Workman as a result of an industrial accident. Plaintiffs contend that Workman willfully failed to use safety goggles provided by his employer, Van Waters & Rogers, which resulted in his eye injury being worse than it would have otherwise been, and that the 15% reduction set out in U.C.A., 1953, § 35-1-14 of Utah’s Workers’ Compensation Act should have…