Waldrip v. Graco Corp.

The defining issue in this appeal is whether the Workers’ Compensation Commission correctly applied the statutory presumption contained in Ark. Code Ann. § ll-9-102(4)(B)(iv) (Repl. 2002) when it denied benefits to an injured worker after a urine test revealed the presence of marijuana metabolites one day following his workplace injury. The Commission concluded, based on the presence of marijuana metabolites in the worker’s urine, that the employer proved the “presence ... ofillegal drugs” so as to justify the rebuttable presumption that the appellant’s accident was substantially occasioned…