Langendoerfer v. Ernest Hazel, Jr., Inc.

CLEMENS, Judge.

Plaintiff’s workmen’s compensation claim for accidental injury was denied by the referee, the Industrial Commission and the trial court on the ground plaintiff’s injury was not accidental. Plaintiff contends on appeal that the sudden traumatic nature of her injury ipso facto constituted a compen-sable accident. We cannot agree.

The facts are undisputed. Plaintiff was at work in her customary manner, assembling sheets of cardboard into binders. A pack of cardboard sheets, about the size and weight of a telephone book, was at floor level and had to be lifted to plaintiff’s work…