Publix Supermarkets, Inc. v. Redding

BARFIELD, Chief Judge.

The employer/earrier appeal a workers’ compensation order which awarded the claimant permanent total disability benefits. We reverse.

The 30-year-old claimant suffered a compensable back injury in November of 1992. Medical evidence indicated claimant had a ten percent permanent impairment, with a restriction of no lifting over fifty pounds. Claimant’s physician indicated that claimant could work five days per week, eight hours per day, and that he could stand or sit for eight hours at a time. Vocational evidence indicated that claimant’s reading skills were above average…