McDONALD v. RUTLEDGE

No. 16429.

328 S.E.2d 524 (1985)

Ronald McDONALD v. Phyllis J. RUTLEDGE, Clerk, etc.; Parsons Footwear; the Board of Review of the W.Va. Dept. of Employment Security; J.F. McClanahan, Chairman; C.C. Elmore, Jr., Member; Gregory Elliot, Member; and the Commissioner of the W.Va. Dept. of Employment Security.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

April 3, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tom Rodd, Morgantown, for appellant.

Robert B. Allen, King, Betts & Allen, Charleston, for appellees.


BROTHERTON, Justice:

Ronald McDonald was employed as a shoe molder operator at Parsons Footwear, Inc., in Parsons, West Virginia. His job entailed taking tennis shoe tops out of an oven, laying them on a mold, and pulling tightly on two strings to tighten them onto the mold before a machine attached the rubber sole. In a working day this operation would be repeated up to 600 times. Pulling on the strings cut and blistered the appellant's hands. The employer supplied...

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