Houston Independent School District v. Harrison

LEVY, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding worker’s compensation benefits to Marva L. Harrison, appellee, arising from a disability caused by an electrical shock.

Harrison was a school cafeteria worker for appellant, Houston Independent School District, (“HISD”), and on April 28, 1983, was at work preparing gravy in the Whid-by Elementary School cafeteria. While so engaged, she reached for some scraps of meat that were on a metal table on her left. Harrison was holding a metal pitcher of hot water in her right hand. When her left hand touched the metal table bearing the meat…