WILLIAM KRIZ, Claimant, v. STATE OF ILLINOIS, Respondent.
Case summary
Claimant, a night electrician, was burned while starting a gas engine. The court found the injury arose out of and in the course of employment and awarded $465.00 for temporary total disability and disfigurement.
Statutes cited: Workmen's Compensation Act
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Headnotes
- PERSONAL INJURY-when award will be made-Workmen's Compensation Act. Where claimant receives injuries arising out of and in the course of employment while employed by the State in a business declared to be extra hazardous, an award will be made under the Workmen's Compensation Act. OSCAR E. CARLSTROM, Attorney General; FRANK R. EAGLE- TON, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.
Claimant was employed by the State in the business declared by the Workmen's Compensation Act to be extra hazardous. On the 6th day of September, 1929, while engaged as night electrician in charge of the pumps and while working on a gas engine trying to start it the engine back fired and ignited a can of gasoline which claimant had in his hand. As a result thereof the claimant was severely burned on the abdomen, chest, both wrists and both hands. The medical, surgical and hospital bills were all furnished by the State. His injuries arose out of and in the course of his employment, and the State is liable to compensate him for them.
The Attorney General recommends that the claimant be allowed six weeks temporary total disability at $15.00 per week and twenty-five weeks for disfigurement which makes a total of $465.00.
It is therefore ordered that claimant be and he is awarded the sum of $465.00.