FRUEHAUF CORP. v. PRATER

Civ. 1313.

360 So.2d 999 (1978)

FRUEHAUF CORPORATION v. Howell Franklin PRATER.

Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied June 14, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Hodges of Ford, Caldwell, Ford & Payne, Huntsville, for appellant.

A. P. Reich, II of Speake, Speake & Reich, Moulton, for appellee.


WRIGHT, Presiding Judge.

Defendant employer appeals from judgment in a workmen's compensation suit. We affirm.

Claimant was injured by accident in the line and scope of his employment with defendant, while working as a furnace operator in defendant's plant at Decatur, Alabama on February 13, 1974. Plaintiff suffered second and third degree burns when a furnace charged with molten aluminum exploded. Approximately 55% of his body surface was burned.

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