Public Employees' Retirement System v. Lee

ROBERTS, J.,

for the Court.

¶ 1. This opinion represents the consolidation of three separate appeals that arose from the same nucleus of operative facts.1 *222Albert “Butch” Lee worked as an instructor at the Mississippi Fire Academy for more than twenty-one years. On November 5, 2004, Lee injured his back while he was on the job and preparing a training scenario for fire academy candidates. Specifically, Lee was lifting a 160 to 170 pound training dummy from the back of a vehicle. When Lee turned to drop the training dummy into a hole, he felt a sudden sharp and “excruciating” pain that went from…