Opinion
March 10, 1943.
Claimant's appeal is from a decision denying his claim for 100 per cent permanent loss of use of the left eye. The referee gave him the award asked. This was reversed by the Industrial Board on the ground that causal relation was not shown. The claimant was a man sixty-four years of age who, during his adult life, had worked as a tool maker. Beginning Tuesday, November 14, 1939, he worked for four days reconditioning a tool room and removing obsolete tools. Some of the fixtures weighed eighty to ninety pounds. This was unusually heavy work for him. On Saturday he noticed a blurring of the vision of his left eye; on the following Tuesday the difficulty had increased. While there is medical evidence to sustain claimant's contention, there is also evidence sustaining the finding of the Board that there was no causal relation between the venous thrombosis which destroyed the eye and the work done by claimant as above recited. The Board's decision of a controverted issue of fact is final. Decision affirmed, without costs. All concur.