Equitable Coal Co. v. Industrial Commission

John Brown, a miner, forty-nine years of age, filed with the Industrial Commission an application for compensation from his employer, the Equitable Coal Company. He charged in his application that on September 24, 1923, while cutting coal overhead in the mine of that company, he “was struck in the right eye with a piece of coal, injuring the sight.” The arbitrator awarded the applicant $17 per week for four weeks’ temporary total incapacity, and a like sum each week for 100 weeks under paragraph (c) of section 8 of the Workmen’s Compensation act for the reason that the injury caused permanent…