Locklear v. Robeson County

WHICHARD, Judge.

Plaintiff sought workers’ compensation benefits for a back injury which his treating physician indicated could have been caused by a small ruptured disc of the lumbar spine at the time he lifted a patient in the course of his employment by Robeson County as an ambulance attendant. After a hearing on plaintiff’s claim the hearing officer found the following facts: At the time of his injury plaintiff had been employed as a Robeson County ambulance attendant for two years. His employment generally required him to drive an ambulance and pick up patients, and to clean the floors of…