Brown v. Alabama Electric Co.

John F. Stroud, Jr., Judge.

Everette J. Brown, an electrician for Alabama Electric Company, arrived at the Potlatch job site in Cypress Bend the morning of July 12, 1994. His foreman asked him to drive to McGehee to get cutting oil. On the way to McGehee at about 8:35 a.m., his company truck left the highway and hit a tree. Mr. Brown was taken to the emergency room of Desha County Hospital and then transferred to Jefferson Regional Medical Center for treatment of a fractured right femur. A urine specimen collected shortly after he arrived at Jefferson Regional was sent to a laboratory for…