E. R. Moore Co. v. Industrial Commission

Claimant, Elizabeth Applehans, appeals the Cook County circuit court judgment which reversed the Industrial Commission’s order awarding total permanent disability compensation to claimant for injuries sustained in a work-connected accident.

Respondent, E. R. Moore Company, rents caps and gowns for use on ceremonial occasions. The garments, after being used, are returned to the plant for dry cleaning. Claimant, a 58-year-old woman, was employed by respondent as a garment presser. On June 8, 1972, a washing machine filled with perchloroethylene, a dry-cleaning solution, overflowed;, splashing…