Holcomb v. Pepsi Cola Co.

GREENE, Judge.

Jerry Allen Holcomb (plaintiff) appeals from an Opinion and Award of the North Carolina Industrial Commission (Commission) denying him workers’ compensation benefits.

The facts are as follows: On 20 April 1994, the plaintiff suffered a neck strain and shoulder injury as he was carrying five or six cases of canned drinks on a hand truck up a set of stairs. Pepsi Cola Company (defendant) accepted the injuries as compensable under workers’ compensation. The plaintiff received medical treatment for his shoulder and neck problems and twenty-six weeks of short term disability pay from…