Gladson v. Piedmont Stores/Scotties Discount Drug Store

WHICHARD, Judge.

The Industrial Commission awarded workers’ compensation to plaintiff for a back injury sustained when she lifted a crate in the course of her employment as defendant employer’s store manager. The principal issue is whether the Commission properly concluded that the injury resulted from an “accident.” G.S. 97-2(6) (1979). We hold that it did.

Our Supreme Court has defined the term ‘accident’ as used in the Workers’ Compensation Act as ‘an unlooked for and untoward event which is not expected or designed by the person who suffers the injury.’ [Citations omitted.] The elements of…