Bursell v. General Electric Co.

MARTIN, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff appeals from an opinion and award of the North Carolina Industrial Commission concluding that plaintiff had failed to show he suffered an injury by accident or an occupational disease. For the reasons that follow, we affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand this case to the Commission.

On 4 October 2001, plaintiff filed a notice of accident to his employer, defendant General Electric Company (“General Electric”), alerting the company he had sustained “psychiatric trauma due to false accusation of theft by the company” on the afternoon of 26 October 1999.…