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  "id": 3111298,
  "name": "DAN PETERS, Appellant, v. THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION et al. (Royal Packing Company, Appellee)",
  "name_abbreviation": "Peters v. Industrial Commission",
  "decision_date": "1983-03-25",
  "docket_number": "No. 56779",
  "first_page": "301",
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill.",
    "id": 8772,
    "name": "Illinois Supreme Court"
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    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
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    "parties": [
      "DAN PETERS, Appellant, v. THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION et al. (Royal Packing Company, Appellee)."
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      {
        "text": "JUSTICE MORAN\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nOn April 26, 1976, petitioner, Dan Peters, was employed by respondent, Royal Packing Company. On this date, petitioner was handling a portion of meat when it came off a hook, causing a bone in the meat to lacerate his right leg above the knee. The arbitrator found petitioner sustained permanent and serious disfigurement and awarded three weeks of compensation. The Industrial Commission reversed, finding no evidence of permanent disability and that petitioner failed to prove he sustained \u201cany serious and permanent disfigurement.\u201d The circuit court of St. Clair County confirmed the Commission\u2019s decision. Petitioner brings this appeal pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 302(a) (87 Ill. 2d R. 302(a)).\nThe issue on review is whether the decision of the Industrial Commission is against the manifest weight of the evidence.\nDisfigurement to the leg above the knee is not compensable. Section 8(c) of the Workmen\u2019s Compensation Act states:\n\u201cFor any serious and permanent disfigurement to the hand, head, face, neck, arm, leg below the knee ***, the employee is entitled to compensation for such disfigurement ***.\u201d (Emphasis added.) Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 48, par. 138.8(c).\nA review of the record indicates the only injury suffered by claimant was a one centimeter scar above the knee. At the time of the injury, petitioner was taken to Sutter Clinic. An X ray showed no foreign body. Two sutures were taken and steristrips were applied. The next day he returned to the clinic and the wound was redressed. On May 5, 1976, the sutures were removed and petitioner was discharged. A medical report from Dr. Vernon Balster of Sutter Clinic stated the wound was healed, there was no disability and \u201conly the skin was involved.\u201d\nPetitioner\u2019s examining physician, Dr. Ralph J. Graff, stated in his report that his examination revealed a well-healed one-centimeter scar. Although petitioner complained of a clicking in the knee with flexion and extension, Dr. Graff found \u201cmotion at the knee to be normal.\u201d\nWe hold the Commission\u2019s finding was not against the manifest weight of the evidence. Therefore, the judgment of the circuit court of St. Clair County is affirmed.\nJudgment affirmed.",
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        "author": "JUSTICE MORAN"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Jack Randall, of St. Louis, Missouri, for appellant.",
      "William L. Rogers, of Keefe & De Pauli, P.C., of Fair-view Heights, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "(No. 56779.\nDAN PETERS, Appellant, v. THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION et al. (Royal Packing Company, Appellee).\nOpinion filed March 25, 1983.\nJack Randall, of St. Louis, Missouri, for appellant.\nWilliam L. Rogers, of Keefe & De Pauli, P.C., of Fair-view Heights, for appellee."
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