Panel Upholds PTD Award to Lineman for Electric Shock Injuries

The Tennessee Supreme Court's Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel upheld an award of permanent total disability benefits to a lineman for his injuries from an unwitnessed accident. Case: Benson v. Southern Electric Corp. of Mississippi, No. W2015-02053-SC-R3-WC, 12/19/2016, published. Facts: Eric Benson worked for the Southern Electric Corp. of Mississippi as a lineman. While working on July 12, 2011, he sustained an electric shock injury while working on a power line. Benson has no recollection of how he was shocked, and there were no witnesses to his accident. He sustain...