Electro-Voice, Inc. v. O'Dell

OPINION

COOPER, Justice.

This is an appeal by an employer from an adverse judgment entered in the Circuit Court of Cocke County, Tennessee, in a workmen’s compensation proceeding.

The appellee, Gladys Carolyn O’Dell, was employed by appellant, Electro-Voice, Inc., as an assembly line worker. Specifically, appellee glued a board into or onto the chassis of radios being assembled. On November 23, 1970, while performing the task assigned her by her employer, appellee felt something moving in her hair. On reaching to her head to determine what it was, appellee was stung on the middle finger of her…