The Kentucky Supreme Court last week denied an employer's request that it reconsider its determination that the employer was liable for an enhanced award of benefits to a worker's four-story fall down an elevator shaft during a failed attempted rescue from a stalled elevator car.The case was Hornback v. Hardin Memorial Hospital, No. 2012-SC-000195-WC.Patricia Hornback worked for the Hardin Memorial Hospital as a janitor. In August 2009, a misaligned restrictor on an elevator car at the hospital caused it to stall between floors. Members of the hospital's security staff were ab...
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