Edwards v. United States Rubber Co.

On April 1, 1948, while plaintiff was employed by the defendant cleaning automobile tires with a revolving wire brush, a steel wire flew from the brush and penetrated the cornea of plaintiff’s left eye. He was hospitalized for several weeks, a traumatic cataract and scar tissue developed as a result of the injury, the cataract was surgically removed, and plaintiff’s eye was bandaged for about 2 months. He was paid compensation for total disability from April 1st to June 20th, at which time he returned to work, almost blind in the left eye. He had lost 98 per cent, vision in that eye.…