Ricketts v. Industrial Commission

PRESIDING JUSTICE McCULLOUGH

delivered the opinion of the court:

The issue in this case involves the calculation of claimant’s average weekly wage rate. Claimant was injured after working a total of four days over a three-week period and was awarded benefits by the arbitrator. On review, the Industrial Commission (Commission) modified the average weekly wage rate set by the arbitrator. The Commission inferred that claimant had worked eight hours each of the four days he was employed by respondent, which it then multiplied by his union scale wage and divided by 15 working days, the three-week…