Milton Young v. Boone Electric Cooperative

I concur in affirmance of the Labor and Industrial-Commission’s award of compensation to Milton Young for his knee injury. I respectfully dissent, however, from the majority’s affirmance of the separate award for an injury to Young’s right shoulder.

The Commission found that Young sustained the shoulder injury while engaged in the routine task of lifting himself up onto a platform on his work truck. Young had performed this same task innumerable times without incident. Because Young’s shoulder injury was apparently caused by his performance of his usual work duties in the normal manner, it…