Raper v. Mansfield Systems, Inc.

JACKSON, Judge.

Timothy Raper (“plaintiff’) and Mansfield Systems, Inc. (“defendant-employer”), along with its insurance carrier, Federated Mutual Insurance Co. (collectively, “defendants”), appeal from an Opinion and Award of the Full Commission of the North Carolina Industrial Commission (“Full Commission”) filed 2 February 2007. For the following reasons, we affirm in part and remand in part.

Plaintiff was employed by defendant-employer as a driver of gasoline tankers. On 28 May 2003, after filling a gasoline storage tank in his usual manner, plaintiff reached down to pick up the hose and,…