Court Opinion

ID: 5112388
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-10-02 16:12:17.069837+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:21:38.392356
License: Public Domain

JOSEPHINE LINKER HART, Judge, concurring. The Commission found that Greg E. Prock failed to rebut the statutory presumption that his accident was substantially occasioned by his use of a controlled substance. To my mind, what is more telling of Prock’s intoxication was his failure to vent the barrel to determine whether it contained a combustible substance and to exhaust any gases that had built up in the barrel. Certainly, no one testified that it was a common practice to not examine a barrel for combustible substances before using an |igacetylene torch to cut into it. Accordingly, I concur in the majority’s decision to deny benefits.