Unenforced Safety Rule No Bar to Award 
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Published: May 15, 2012
Tags: Judge Stephen R. McCullough, Virginia Court of Appeals, Workers’ Comp
The Court of Appeals affirms an award of benefits to an employee who injured his shoulder loading bundles of steel plates onto a pallet; credible medical evidence supports causation and employer failed to show an express order or willful violation of a safety rule.
Employee is a plate press operator; his job consists of operating a ...
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