Oscar Mayer & Co. v. Industrial Commission

Paul Winkleman was injured on July 8, 1975, when a piece of welding slag struck his left eye while he was repairing machinery at Oscar Mayer & Co. in Beardstown, where he was employed. An arbitrator awarded compensation for a permanent and total loss of 10% of the vision in the left eye, and the Industrial Commission affirmed. The circuit court of Morgan County set aside the decision of the Commission, and Winkleman filed a direct appeal to this court under Rule 302(a)(2) (73 Ill. 2d R. 302(a)(2)).

The medical evidence submitted to the arbitrator and the Industrial Commission was set out in…