Powell v. Butler Manufacturing Co.

KENNEDY, Judge.

This is an appeal from an award of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission of Missouri, denying the workers’ compensation claim of Betty J. Powell. We reverse and remand the case to the Commission for rehearing.

Claimant Betty J. Powell, an employee of Butler Manufacturing Company, was assigned to the duty of bundling staves, a new and unaccustomed task. This task involved inserting a bolt and nut at the top and at the bottom of a bunch of staves which had been placed upon a cart. She could not get in position to insert the bottom bolt without kneeling, an unaccustomed…