Tate v. Colling Production Service

URBIGKIT, Justice.

Claimant Donald Tate applied for Worker’s Compensation benefits for a knee injury claimed to have occurred during pipeline construction activities. The trial-court denial on a controverted “accident” issue presents a factual conflict for appellate review.

The claimant, a pipeline construction laborer, testified that he sustained a knee injury on September 6,1985, while engaged in carrying a piece of pipe, by bumping his knee on a protruding trench pipe which caused the claimed injuries for which medical expenses and disability benefits should have been payable. Employer,…