Smith's Food & Drug, Inc. v. Labor Commission

OPINION

VOROS, Judge:

11 Smith's Food & Drug, Inc. (Employer) challenges a decision of the Utah Labor Commission (the Commission) granting workers' compensation benefits to Gina Christensen (Claimant). We affirm.

BACKGROUND

12 In 1998, Claimant began working for Employer in its dairy department as a cheese cook. Claimant's job entailed working twelve-hour shifts converting milk to cheese curds in large vats. That process required Claimant, usually with the aid of a co-worker, to repeatedly lift, attach, push, pull, and insert large industrial equipment, some weighing as much as seventy pounds.…