McCloskey v. Nu-Car Carriers, Inc.

WIEAND, Judge:

The issue in this appeal is whether a laborer whose left eye has been injured in an accident but whose vision therein is correctable to 20/40 by lenses is a handicapped person for purposes of applying the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act of October 27, 1955, P.L. 744, as amended, 43 P.S. § 951 et seq.

Frank McCloskey was employed as a yardman by Automobile Transport, Inc. (ATI) for eleven years at ATI’s terminal in Pittsburgh. McCloskey’s duties required that he inspect and unload new automobiles which arrived by train or tractor-trailer and drive them to designated area…