UNION UNDERWEAR CO., INC. v. SCEARCE

No. 93-SC-000865-WC.

896 S.W.2d 7 (1995)

UNION UNDERWEAR COMPANY, INC. d/b/a Fruit of the Loom, Appellant, v. Mary Kay SCEARCE, Workers' Compensation Board, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied May 11, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman E. Harned, Joy D. Denton, Harned, Anderson & Bachert, Bowling Green, for appellant.

Morris Butler, Butler, Butler & Hudson, Greensburg, William A. Miller, Sr., Ferreri & Fogle, Louisville, for appellee.


ROBERT E. GILLUM, Special Justice.

Mary Kay Scearce (Scearce) quit school after the eighth grade and began working for the appellant at age sixteen (16). For twenty-one (21) years Scearce was a sewing machine operator, working eight to nine hours per day, six days a week, averaging Two Hundred (200%) percent of her production quota. The type of work Scearce performed required repetitive motion of her hands and arms.

In February, 1986, Scearce began experiencing...

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