Lingo v. Dixie Veneer Co.

This is a workmen's compensation case.

The petitioner, Norma Lee Lingo, was an employee of Dixie Veneer Company, a corporation, of Abbeville, Alabama on October 21, 1973, and was injured while in the line and scope of her employment when she fell some thirty feet onto some logs and a concrete floor. At the time of the fall, petitioner was placing logs on a conveyor belt. The fall resulted in injury to her lower back.

Petitioner filed an action in the trial court asking that it find she was suffering a job-related disability of seventy-five percent and to award her compensation commensurate with…