No Intoxication Defense for Employer

The Georgia Court of Appeals ruled that an employer could not avail itself of the statutory presumption that a gin worker’s accident was caused by intoxication from marijuana use, since it could not prove how a urine sample was obtained for drug testing. Case: Lingo v. Early County Gin, No. A18A0267, 06/01/2018, published. Facts: Earnest Lingo worked at a cotton gin as a module feeder. His job involved assisting truck drivers as they backed their trucks into a loading dock area, and then unloading cotton for ginning. On Nov. 20, 2014, Lingo was on duty at the loading do...