Beasley v. Industrial Commission

LOCKWOOD, Justice:

This matter is before us on a petition for review of a decision of the Court of Appeals setting aside the award of the Industrial Commission. Opinion of the Court of Appeals, 15 Ariz.App. 394, 489 P.2d 57 (1971), vacated.

Petitioner, Haskell Beasley, Jr., a farm employee, was accidentally shot in the neck while driving a farm machine. The injury caused him to fall into the machine that he was driving. As a result of the accident both of his legs were paralyzed and his arm was amputated. The Commission awarded him temporary total disability at that time. Six years later, on…