Gold Kist, Inc. v. Dumas

This is a workmen's compensation case.

Appellee Flora Dumas (Dumas) is a forty-year-old woman with a sixth-grade education. Her working experience has been as a farm worker, a nurse's aide, and as a waitress and dishwasher.

Dumas had worked for appellant, Gold Kist, for about a month as a line worker in its chicken processing plant when she suffered an on-the-job injury on May 6, 1981. Her boss yelled "move;" she jumped back abruptly to avoid being hit by wire from a broken conveyor belt, jerking her left arm and shoulder. She told Randall Scott, her supervisor, that she had been hurt. He…