Mikel v. Engineered Specialty Plastics

Sam Bird, Judge.

Marsha Mikel appeals from a decision by the Workers’ Compensation Commission, which found that she did not suffer a compensable injury on January 29, 1994, while working for appellee, Engineered Specialty Plastics, as a machine operator. In September 1993, Mikel started working with Engineered Specialty Plastics on the assembly line snipping gates, which are pieces of plastic that are attached to parts when they come out of the machines. On January 29, 1994, she was moved to a different assembly line, where she clipped larger gates. To clip gates, appellant squeezed clippers,…