Wabash Area Development, Inc. v. Industrial Commission

The employee, Charles Tannahill, sustained injury to his left foot on November 6, 1975, when he fell from a height of approximately 10 feet while engaged in the construction of a house as part of a vocational training program sponsored by respondents, Wabash Area Development, Inc. (Wabash), and Edwards County Community Unit District No. 1 High School (Edwards). An amended application for adjustment of claim was filed with the Industrial Commission alleging that the case came within the borrowed-employee provisions of section 1(a)(4) of the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch.…