Conner v. Continental Industrial Chemicals, Inc.

WYNN, Judge.

On 29 December 1992, plaintiff Robert Allen Conner, a truck driver employed by Carolina Freight Carriers, delivered chemicals to defendant Continental Industrial Chemical Inc.’s (“Continental”) warehouse. In the process of unloading that truck at the warehouse, Continental’s employee, defendant Robert Wyatt, backed a forklift into Mr. Conner. As a result of the accident, Mr. Conner suffered a fractured left foot, a crush injury to the soft tissue of the same foot, injury to his right knee, and bruising on his left leg.

Mr. Conner sued defendants for damages arising from the…