Inland Steel Co. v. Almodovar

*568Dissenting Opinion

Buchanan, P.J.

I dissent from affirmance of the award because there was no “accident.”1

The evidence and the findings conclusively indicate to me that plaintiff (Almodovar) was performing the normal task of his every day employment routine at Inland. He had worked there for nine (9) years and had never previously experienced a back problem.

His job as a “wrapper” of bands and coils of sheet metal required him to continuously use a tool called a stretcher, which had to be lifted and maneuvered as it became necessary to fasten steel bands around coils of steel as they moved at…