Clevenger v. Plexco, Division of Amstead Industries, Inc.

OPINION

FONES, Justice.

This is a direct appeal by plaintiff, employee, from a trial court judgment denying worker’s compensation benefits.

Plaintiff contends that he was given a harsh reprimand and an ultimatum to improve or be fired by defendant’s, employer’s, production foreman; that such treatment was unexpected, undeserved, and so upsetting that it precipitated a nervous breakdown; that those circumstances were sufficient to amount to a compensable “accident” under Jose v. Equifax, Inc., 556 S.W.2d 82 (Tenn.1977). We affirm the judgment of dismissal.

The incident that plaintiff asserts as a…