A Worker Who Cannot See or Hear Is Not Entitled to Be Compensated for Those Conditions Under Workers’ Compensation. an Antiworker Decision that Belies Logic. State Ex Rel. Smith v. Industrial Commission, 138 Ohio St.3rd 212, 2014-Ohio-513.

Smith suffered a profound injury to his brain in an industrial accident leaving him in a vegetative state. In other words he just lies there. He does not talk, respond or otherwise show any signs of normal life. His family asked to be compensated for loss of vision...