TOLBERT v. EASTERN CONTRACTING INC.

No. 90,859.

978 P.2d 358 (1999)

1999 OK 23

Helton W. TOLBERT, Petitioner, v. EASTERN CONTRACTING INC., The Ohio Casualty Group, and Oklahoma Workers' Compensation Court, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

March 30, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald E. Smolen and Bryan L. Smith, Tulsa, Oklahoma, for Petitioner.

Neil F. Layman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for Respondents.


WATT, Justice.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

¶ 1 Claimant, Helton W. Tolbert, was employed by respondent, Eastern Contracting, Inc., as a backhoe operator and foreman. Tolbert claimed that he sustained an on-the-job-injury on Saturday, April 19, 1997 while holding a blower that was blowing string through a several hundred-feet long four-inch pipe. The string was attached to an inflatable parachute-like cone...

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