The Arkansas Court of Appeals upheld an award of benefits to a school teacher for her neck and back injuries from a fall.
Margaret Macon worked for the Mineral Springs School District as a middle school math teacher. She fell in October 2020 when she went to lean against a desk and the desk collapsed beneath her.
Macon said she felt a "twinge" in her back when she got up, but she did not seek medical attention that day.
Three days after the incident, she told the school secretary that she needed to leave school to go see her doctor and reported the the accident to the employee who...
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