Traino v. Murray Corp. of America

Opinion by

Watkins, J.,

This is claimant, of lifting

a workmen’s compensation case in which the John Traino, while doing his ordinary work bathtubs from a conveyor line, sustained a *425back injury diagnosed as a herniated lumbar inter-vertebral disc. The referee allowed compensation, finding that the circumstances constituted an accident. The board reversed and denied compensation.

The evidence shows that claimant had to reach overhead to the conveyor line, remove tubs weighing 140 pounds, then with a twisting back motion, place the tubs in stacks on the factory floor. During one such effort he felt…