Gutierrez v. GDX AUTOMOTIVE

TYSON, Judge.

GDX Automotive (“GDX”) and St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company (collectively, “defendants”) appeal from opinion and award entered by the North Carolina Industrial Commission (“the Commission”) awarding Griselda Gutierrez (“plaintiff’) benefits for an injury she sustained at work. We reverse.

I. Background

The undisputed findings of fact show that GDX manufactures interior car parts. Plaintiff worked for GDX as an assembler from 28 June 1999 through 28 February 2001.. She was approximately thirty years old, had completed approximately three years of high school, and was an…