Legal Opinion
Wilkerson v. Ingalls Shipbuilding, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 23, 1997No. 96-60676PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
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In 1972, Lovett Wilkerson retired after working fourteen years at the shipyard of Ingalls Shipbuilding, Inc. (“Ingalls”), in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The year before he retired, his average weekly wage was $167.70. In 1992, he underwent tests that revealed he suffered a permanent hearing loss in both ears, and the parties agree that he suffered a binaural hearing impairment of 19.23%. It is undisputed that his hearing loss was a result of the noise to which he was exposed at Ingalls and thus that the injury occurred in the course of his employment.
In March 1992,…
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