Hawkins v. Consolidated Aluminum Corp.

OPINION

BROCK, Justice.

In this worker’s compensation case the chancellor awarded the plaintiff-employee benefits for a fifty percent permanent loss of hearing in both ears, or seventy-five weeks of disability payments of sixty-six and two-thirds percent of the employee’s weekly wages, as provided by T.C.A. § 50-6-207(3)(A)(ii)(r). The plaintiff alleged and the chancellor found that the plaintiff’s loss of hearing was an injury that arose out of and in the course of his employment with the defendant in that it resulted from exposure to loud noises in the defendant’s plant where the plaintiff…