Briggs Manufacturing Co. v. Industrial Commission

PRESIDING JUSTICE BARRY

delivered the opinion of the court:

The circuit court confirmed the Industrial Commission’s (Commission’s) decision to award the petitioner, Doreen Miller, 45% weeks of additional temporary total disability (TTD) benefits under section 8(b) of the Workers’ Compensation Act (the Act) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 48, par. 138.8(b)). The respondent, Briggs Manufacturing Company, appeals.

The record shows that on February 24, 1981, the petitioner injured her back when a wet toilet bowl slipped from her hands while she was working for the respondent. As a result of her injury,…