Hebert v. Sentry Insurance Co.

FRUGÉ, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment denying plaintiff total and permanent workmen’s compensation benefits. Plaintiff-appellant, Terry Hebert, was employed by Metal Buildings, Inc., the defendant’s insured, as a common laborer. On March 2,1967, while plaintiff was seated on a steel beam approximately thirty feet above the ground, a piece of angle iron which he was holding touched electrical high lines giving him an electrical shock and causing him to fall from the beam. As a result of the accident, plaintiff allegedly received a back injury and first, second, and third degree…