Errante v. Cumberland County Solid Waste Management

GREENE, Judge.

Defendant appeals from an Opinion and Award of the North Carolina Industrial Commission filed 7 March 1991, affirming the Deputy Commissioner’s decision finding plaintiff permanently and totally disabled, and awarding plaintiff compensation pursuant to N.C.G.S. §§ 97-29 and 97-25.

The evidence established that plaintiff is a 59 year old man with a sixth grade education who worked for defendant Cumberland County Solid Waste Management for approximately eleven and one half years. Plaintiff’s duties varied during the time that he worked for defendant. On 24 May 1988, while…