Collins Signs, Inc. v. Smith

PITTMAN, Judge.

Collins Signs, Ine., the employer, appeals a trial court’s award of workers’ compensation benefits to a former employee, Vernon Smith. Smith was employed with Collins Signs on June 1, 1999, when he attempted to move a large Kmart sign that blocked his passage through a doorway. When he did so, the dollies on which the sign was resting remained stationary and the sign moved off the dollies, hitting his left shoulder, knocking him to the ground, and falling on top of him.

The only issue on appeal is whether Smith was impaired by illegal drugs at the time of the accident so to…