Dean v. Industrial Commission

The petitioner, John Dean, filed a claim under the Workers’ Compensation Act (the Act) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 48, par. 138.1 et seq.) for injury he sustained while an employee of the respondent, Commonwealth Edison and Nuclear Installation Service Company, a/k/a NISCO (the company). The company and the Commission appeal from a judgment of the circuit court which set aside and remanded the Industrial Commission’s denial of benefits.

After employing the petitioner as a boilermaker, in March of 1980, the company promoted him to job superintendent at the Braidwood Nuclear Plant. One year…