Church v. Baxter Travenol Laboratories, Inc.

EAGLES, Judge.

Defendants appeal from a worker’s compensation award given by the full Industrial Commission (Commission) which modified an earlier deputy commissioner’s award. The evidence presented to the Commission is summarized below.

I

Plaintiff worked roughly five years as an accounting clerk for the defendant-employer prior to the time of the painful incident giving rise to this appeal. The position of accounting clerk involved *413no lifting. Because of cutbacks, plaintiff was transferred to a production line job in defendant’s filling department in early January 1988. Plaintiffs new duties…