Pfister & Vogel Tanning Co. v. Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations

On March 5, 1971, Robert Timberlake, an employee of Pfister & Vogel Tanning Company, Inc., injured his back while rolling a four-hundred-pound barrel from one pallet to another. The circuit court entered judgment confirming the findings and order of the Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations which had affirmed an examiner’s finding that the injury caused 20 percent permanent partial disability. The employer and the insurance company appeal from that judgment. We reverse the judgment.

At a hearing before an examiner, Timberlake testified that he was an employee of Pfister, that he…