Prata v. Banner Pharmacaps, Inc.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

PARKER, J.A.D.

This is an employer’s appeal from a workers’ compensation judgment in favor of the employee for seven and one-half percent permanent partial disability resulting from low back strain. The judgment amounted to $5,940, plus $800 in doctors’ fees and $1,000 in counsel fees.

*157The facts elicited during the compensation court hearing indicate that the petitioner had been employed as a packaging inspector by respondent for seventeen and one-half years. Her job responsibilities included lifting parcels weighing about thirty pounds. She left…