Court Yanks Family's VSSR Award for Worker's Electrocution

An Ohio appellate court struck down an enhancement to a family’s award of benefits for a worker’s fatal accident due to a failure of the Industrial Commission hearing officer to adequately support the basis for the enhancement.   Case: State ex rel. Thompson Electric v. Industrial Commission, No. 16AP-23, 09/14/2017, published. Facts: Thomas Otto worked for Thompson Electric as a foreman. On May 25, 2011, he went out with a crew to replace a transmission pole in Wooster, Ohio. As the crew was setting up to do the job, a crew member accidentally caused a derrick boom to come...