Hedrick v. PPG Industries

MARTIN, John C., Judge.

Defendant appeals from an opinion and award of the Industrial Commission awarding plaintiff workers’ compensation benefits for disability and medical expenses due to a movement disorder resulting from plaintiff’s compensable injury by accident at work on 9 March 1993. The evidence presented at the hearing before the deputy commissioner tended, to show that plaintiff sustained an injury while working for defendant when she fell backwards, hitting her buttocks and lower back, while attempting to pull a box of tubes. She was initially treated for a lumbosacral strain with…