Jones v. Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.

Deen, Presiding Judge.

The employee appellant in this workers’ compensation case suffered a herniated disk injury which incapacitated him, necessitating lengthy hospitalization and surgery. The employee is an illiterate workman with a third grade education whose duties occasionally included climbing up on the platform of a mangle which he was operating. On August 7, 1980, he jumped from the platform and specifies this as the point of origin of his back injury. The administrative law judge hearing the case found under supportive evidence that “when he jumped down to the mill floor he almost…