Carlat v. Ark. Highway & Transp. Dep't

This workers'-compensation appeal asks us to decide whether substantial evidence supports the Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission's decision that an Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department employee's weed eating activities did not equate to a rapid-repetitive movement as workers'-compensation law uses the term.

Dale Carlat is a fifty-four-year-old man who has worked for the highway department since 2002. In October 2014, he complained of a sharp pain in his shoulder but did not report it as a work-related injury until March 2015. In February 2015 a MRI showed several tears and…