Illinois Appellate Court
Civil Court
Workers' Compensation
Employee, who worked as a mechanical assembler basic, filed worker's compensation claim for injuries to his lumbar spine while lifting and pulling equipment at work. Eleven months later, claimant filed second claim alleging injury to his "back man as a whole" resulting from lifting, bending, and pulling at work on date eleven days after date of injury alleged in first claim. Workers' Compensation Commission affirmed and adopted arbitrator's decision that in first case, claimant had established accident occurred on that date, arose out of and in course of his employment, and his current condition of ill-being in low back was causally related to work accident. Commission's determination of compensable work-related injury was not against manifest weight of evidence.Remanded for determination of propriety of including overtime hours in calculation of claimant's wage. (HOLDRIDGE, HOFFMAN, HUDSON, and STEWART, concurring.)