Hawthorne v. Louisiana Department of Agriculture & Forestry

hEZELL, Judge.

Louis Hawthorne appeals a judgment from the Office of Workers’ Compensation which held that he could return to his former work on a four-wheeler placing traps for boll weevils in fields. We affirm.

FACTS

Hawthorne was hired by the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry on March 27, 2000. On April 6, 2000, he broke his left wrist and arm when a bank caved in, causing him and the four-wheeler he was driving to fall, with the four-wheeler landing on him. He was treated by Dr. Ronnie Gregg at Riverland Medical Center.

The State initially paid indemnity and medical benefits…