Bussell v. Georgia-Pacific Corp.

Margaret Meads, Judge.

This is the second appeal of this workers’ compensation case. The initial claim was brought by appellant, R.H. Bussell, who fell on September 7, 1986, when a stair broke in appellee’s power plant causing him to fall a distance of approximately four feet and to land flat on his back on the floor. As a result of his injuries, appellant was assessed an anatomical rating of forty percent to the body as a whole. Appellee accepted responsibility for only twenty percent, and appellant filed a claim alleging that appellee controverted his claim and also that he had been injured…