PHILLIPS PRODUCTS CO. v. INDUSTRIAL COM.

No. 55479.

94 Ill.2d 200 (1983)

446 N.E.2d 234

PHILLIPS PRODUCTS COMPANY, INC., Appellant, v. THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION et al. (Raymond C. Benjamin, Appellee).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed February 18, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hinshaw, Culbertson, Moelmann, Hoban & Fuller, of Chicago (Karl M. Tippet and D. Kendall Griffith, of counsel), for appellant.

Anesi, Ozmon, Lewin & Associates, Ltd., of Chicago (Charles E. Anesi, Richard A. Lewin, and Arnold G. Rubin, of counsel), for appellee.


Judgment reversed.

JUSTICE CLARK delivered the opinion of the court:

On May 28, 1975, Raymond C. Benjamin was working for the Phillips Products Company, Inc. (Phillips), in the same capacity as material handler and mixer in which he had been employed for the previous five months. Mr. Benjamin (the claimant) worked the 3 p.m. to midnight shift. At 10 p.m. on May 28, he struck his right leg on a corrugated drum scratching his leg above the knee.

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