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RUIZ v. BELK MASONRY CO., INC.

No. COA01-98.

559 S.E.2d 249 (2002)

Francisco RUIZ, Employee, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. BELK MASONRY COMPANY, INC., Employer, and Companion Property And Casualty, Carrier, Defendant-Appellants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

February 19, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark T. Sumwalt, Vernon Sumwalt, and Stefan R. Latorre, Charlotte, for plaintiff-appellee.

Morris York Williams Surles & Barringer, LLP, by G. Lee Martin and Keith B. Nichols, Charlotte, for defendant-appellants.

McGEE, Judge.

Defendants appeal from the award of workers' compensation benefits to plaintiff Francisco Ruiz. Plaintiff sustained an injury while employed as a construction worker for defendant Belk Masonry Company, Inc. on 7 October 1997. Plaintiff fell approximately seventy feet from a forklift onto a concrete floor and sustained a traumatic brain injury, a kidney contusion, and several fractures. He was transported to Carolinas Medical Center and was hospitalized...

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