Griggs v. Eastern Omni Constructors

TYSON, Judge.

David Lee Griggs (“plaintiff’) appeals from an opinion and award of the North Carolina Industrial Commission (“Commission”) which denied workers’ compensation benefits. We remand to the Commission for further findings of fact and conclusions of law.

I. Background

On 6 April 1999, plaintiff, who had been an electrician for twenty-two years, was employed by Omni Constructors (“employer”) as an electrician and was working at a job site in Brown Summit. Plaintiff and Richard Lambeth were assigned a “rush job” of pulling old wire leading from heavy machinery without damaging the wire in…