City of Tampa v. Green

390 So.2d 1220 (1980)

CITY OF TAMPA, Appellant,

v.

David GREEN, Appellee.

No. TT-47.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

December 2, 1980.

James A. Sheehan, Tampa, for appellant.

William P. Levens, Tampa, for appellee.

WENTWORTH, Judge.

The self-insured employer appeals a workers' compensation order which we affirm.

Claimant, a garbage man for the city of Tampa, sustained a fractured skull when he fell off a garbage truck while on a new route. Although the other trucks were equipped with both vertical and horizontal handrails, this truck, which claimant had never worked before, had only…