GARDINIER, INC. v. COKER

No. 89-02345.

564 So.2d 254 (1990)

GARDINIER, INC. and Crawford & Company, Appellants, v. Roscoe COKER, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

July 23, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy A. Lauten of Fowler, White, Gillen, Boggs, Villareal & Banker, P.A., Tampa, for appellants.

L. Mark Kaylor of Kaylor & Kaylor, Sebring, and Bill McCabe of Shepard, McCabe & Cooley, Longwood, for appellee.


WOLF, Judge.

The employer/carrier appeals a workers' compensation order which found that the heart attack of the claimant, Coker, was compensable. We affirm.

Claimant, a 58-year-old man, was employed by Gardinier, Inc. (employer) as a "dragline oiler" for approximately five years before his heart attack. A dragline is a piece of equipment used in phosphate mining, which requires two employees to operate. One is the dragline operator and the other is the oiler...

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