Edmonds v. IBP, Inc.

The plaintiff-appellant employee, Pamela S. Edmonds, challenges the adequacy of the award of benefits for 6 percent permanent partial disability of each hand from the defendant-appellee employer, IBP, inc. More specifically, Edmonds claims the Workers’ Compensation Court erred in failing to (1) consider certain evidence, (2) find that her thoracic outlet syndrome was proximately caused by her employment, and (3) find that she suffered a body-as-a-whole impairment which reduced her earning capacity. We affirm.

Edmonds, now approximately 30 years of age, had been working at IBP for nearly 2V2…