Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Latta

MURDOCK, Judge.

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (“Goodyear”) appeals from a judgment of the Etowah Circuit Court finding that Cecil Latta, a former Goodyear employee, had suffered a 20% permanent partial disability as a result of work-related hearing loss and awarding Latta 300 weeks of workers’ compensation benefits on the basis of the injury. We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand.

Latta began working for Goodyear in July 1968. He worked in various capacities, spending the last 10 years of his employment with Goodyear working on the mill line at a Goodyear plant. The mills use 300 to…