Legal Opinion
Weaver v. Pilgrim's Pride Corp.
Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama
Decided September 14, 2012No. 2110289PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MOORE, Judge.
Deborah Holloway Weaver appeals from a judgment entered by the Colbert Circuit Court (“the trial court”) in favor of Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation. We reverse.
Background,
Thomas Joseph Weaver (“Weaver”) began working for Pilgrim’s Pride on November 20, 1995. By January 2010, he was working as the feed-mill manager at the company’s Tuscumbia location. On January 27, 2010, Weaver fell 160 feet from the top of a grain silo. He died as a result of that fall.
On October 29, 2010, Weaver’s widow, Deborah Holloway Weaver (“the widow”), filed a complaint pursuant to the Alabama Workers’…
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