Champagne v. Southwest Industrial Contractors, Inc.

STOULIG, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment denying the workmen’s compensation claim of Loubie J. Champagne for maximum benefits he alleges are due for a job-connected injury that left him totally and permanently disabled from continuing in his occupation as a sheet metal foreman. We affirm.

Plaintiff testified the accident occurred on November 7, 1973 as he bent to write an identifying chalk mark on a cut section of pipe so it could later be reassembled properly. He said he felt a sharp pain in his back and he could not straighten up immediately. That same day he was examined by Dr. E.…