Stepp v. Ott

Litz, Judge:

This is an appeal from an order of the Compensation Commissioner, denying the claimant, Mose Stepp, compensation for alleged permanent disability resulting from injury to the eyes.

He was paid an award for temporary disability ending December 25, 1927. Stepp claims that while working for the United Fuel Gas Company near Fort Gay, Wayne county, West Virginia, on September 24, 1927, rust or scales from metal pipe fell into his eyes, causing complete loss of sight in the left eye and impairment of vision in the right.

A. J. Stepp, local foreman of the work, states that Mose complained…