Alexander v. Pin Oaks Nursing Home

CRIST, Judge.

The employer Pin Oaks appeals from a judgment which affirms the Worker’s Compensation award by the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission to claimant Alexander. Alexander’s claim, also sustained by the administrative law judge, was that her injury, in which she suffered a ruptured disc while turning an elderly bed patient in employer’s nursing home on April 29, 1978, was caused by an unusual and abnormal strain. We affirm.

The Worker’s Compensation Law is to be construed liberally, with a view to the public welfare, and is intended to extend its benefits to the largest possible…