Williams v. City of Ava

PHILLIP R. GARRISON, Chief Judge.

Ronnie L. Williams (“Employee”) was employed as a sanitation engineer with the City of Ava (“Employer”). His duties included the continual lifting and moving of heavy residential and industrial trash. Employee sustained two separate injuries in the course of his employment, and he filed separate claims for workers’ compensation which were later consolidated by agreement of the parties.

Employee was first injured on the job on December 3, 1992, when he was pushing a dumpster sideways and his foot slipped on some loose gravel. He felt pain in his lower back near…