Claim of Reed v. Brookhiser

Appeal by an employer and its insurance carrier from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. The board found that in the course of his employment as a landscape gardener, claimant helped to load upon trucks and to unload therefrom 100-pound bags of seed and 250-pound bales of fertilizer as well as bales of peat moss weighing from 200 to 300 pounds each; and thereafter, while using hand tools to loosen frozen soil and to tamp sod, experienced pain and sustained accidental injuries, including an epidural hemorrhage. Appellants dispute the finding of accident. Upon operation, a…