Musgrave v. Banquet Foods Corp.

This appeal is from an award of compensation benefits to the employee-respondent injured while at work in the frozen food plant of the employer-appellant. The award by the referee was affirmed by the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission and, on appeal to the circuit court, the decision of the commission was affirmed.

An injury to the employee’s knee occurred as he was removing boxes of chicken from a conveyor belt and stacking them on a pallet. According to the employee’s testimony, the boxes began to arrive at his station at an accelerated rate and while running sideways in an attempt to…