Claim of Ladutsky v. Tri-Motor Auto Service

Appeal by an employer and its insurance carrier from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. The board has found that while claimant was working as an automobile repairman a foreign body entered his left eye, causing corneal ulceration from which developed various complications and conditions which caused complete blindness in that eye. The board found, further, that claimant had light perception in the left eye prior to the accident and that such perception was lost by reason of the accidental injuries. Concededly, claimant was industrially blind in the left eye prior to…