Simmons Industries v. Hartman

BRIGHTMIRE, Chief Judge.

Did the Workers’ Compensation Court three-judge panel err in affirming the trial court’s award of additional temporary total disability benefits and medical expenses of the claimant for a neck injury arising out of the same job-related accident which caused a previously compensated back injury? We hold that it did not.

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On October 22, 1986, the claimant, Ronald Hartman, was employed as a manual laborer for the employer, Simmons Industries. The claimant’s job involved shoveling ice to other parts of a storage compartment from a place where it accumulated near an…