Melerine v. Ford Motor Corp.

DOMENGEAUX, Judge.

This is an action for Workmen’s Compensation benefits along with penalties and attorney’s fees, brought by plaintiff as a result of an accident which occurred on February 22, 1968. At that time plaintiff was employed by defendant as a “picker-packer,” whose function is to fill orders for parts by picking the required parts from their storage bins and packing them for shipment.

On the date in question plaintiff was engaged in unloading some automobile fenders from a fork-lift machine when he struck the right temporal area of his head on a piece of metal that was projecting…