Moore v. Concrete Supply Co.

WYNN, Judge.

Employer Concrete Supply Company and insurer Royal Insurance Company appeal from an 18 September 2000 amended opinion and award of the Industrial Commission, awarding employee Dennis Moore ongoing workers’ compensation disability benefits and medical expenses resulting from a compensable back injury by accident at work on 30 April 1995. On that date, Moore — a concrete truck driver — sustained a lower-back injury while using a jack-hammer to remove hardened concrete from inside his truck.

Dr. Russell T. Garland initially treated Moore for lower-back pain, instructing him to avoid…