Thomas v. Hanes Printables

JOHNSON, Judge.

Plaintiff filed this claim with the Industrial Commission to recover workers’ compensation benefits for a loss of income sustained due to an intracompany transfer necessitated by a compen-sable injury. Ms. Thomas transferred because her former duties in her inspect-fold job caused her to contract the occupational disease, tendonitis.

Andrea Thomas began her employment with Hanes Print-ables in October 1980, and has been continuously employed there, with the exception of a brief layoff, since February 1981. In late 1984 or early 1985, plaintiff contracted tendonitis of the right…