Griggs v. AB Chance Company

SHANGLER, Presiding Judge.

The employer and insurer appeal from a judgment of the circuit court which affirmed the award of the Industrial Commission in favor of claimant for 25% permanent partial disability of the body as a whole and for medical expenses reasonably and necessarily incurred.

The employee claimed injury when, while seated on the edge of her chair at the assembly line, the chair slipped backwards as she bent over to pick up a pan and the unexpected movement caused her back to pop and the immediate onset of a severe low back pain radiating to the right leg. The referee had found…