State ex rel. Gonzales v. Morgan

{¶ 1} Appellee, Industrial Commission of Ohio, denied appellant’s, Trevor Gonzales’s, application for permanent total disability compensation (“PTD”) in an order that emphasized his refusal to participate in vocational rehabilitation. Gonzales challenges that decision.

{¶2} Gonzales never returned to any type of employment after his 2003 industrial injury, and he filed for PTD six years later. The commission considered Gonzales’s application and concluded that he was physically capable of sedentary employment. It then considered Gonzales’s nonmedical disability factors as required by State ex…