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JONES v. FIELDCREST MILLS, INC.

63793, 63794.

162 Ga. App. 848 (1982)

292 S.E.2d 523

JONES v. FIELDCREST MILLS, INC.; and vice versa.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Rehearing Denied July 7, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Baxter Harcourt, G. William Snipes, for appellant.

Max R. McGlamry, for appellee.

DEEN, Presiding Judge.

The employee appellant in this workers' compensation case suffered a herniated disk injury which incapacitated him, necessitating lengthy hospitalization and surgery. The employee is an illiterate workman with a third grade education whose duties occasionally included climbing up on the platform of a mangle which he was operating. On August 7, 1980, he jumped from the platform and specifies this as the point of origin of his back injury. The...

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