Edmisten v. Bull Shoals Landing

DAVID M. GLOVER, Judge.

| ¶ This workers’ compensation case is a companion case to Prock v. Bull Shoals Landing, 2012 Ark. App. 47, 390 S.W.3d 78, handed down this date. Appellant Matt Edmisten and Greg Proek were injured at work while Edmisten was holding the lid of a fifty-five-gallon drum as Proek opened the drum with a welding torch; the drum exploded, severely burning both Ed-misten and Proek. Drug tests showed the presence of marijuana metabolites in Ed-misten’s body.1

The ALJ made several findings: the provisions of the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Act that provide for the…