Legal Opinion
Tolbert v. Eastern Contracting Inc.
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided March 30, 1999No. 90,859PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WATT, Justice.
FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
¶ 1 Claimant, Helton W. Tolbert, was employed by respondent, Eastern Contracting, Inc., as a backhoe operator and foreman. Tolbert claimed that he sustained an on-the-job-injury on Saturday, April 19, 1997 while holding a blower that was blowing string through a several hundred-feet long four-inch pipe.. The string was attached to an inflatable parachute-like cone, which the force of the air from the blower propelled through the pipe. The string was then to be attached to cable, and the cable was to be pulled through the pipe.
¶2 Tolbert testified…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Parks v. Norman Municipal HospitalSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1984
- Bittman v. Boardman Co.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1977
- Hughes v. Cole Grain Co.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1998
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