March 9, 2010 - A Vermont man is getting a second change to
argue that he deserves workers' compensation after he swallowed a
caustic cleaning agent he thought was Mountain Dew.
Henri Cyr was working at a milk hauling company in 2006 when a
co-worker offered him an apparently abandoned bottle of Mountain
Dew sitting on an office counter top. He later took it home, and
after drinking two beers, drank from the bottle, suffering
extensive burns to his throat and stomach.
The Department of Labor denied Cyr's claim because he was
intoxicated. But Cyr's lawyer argued that the harm was done when he
was given the bottle at work, making his intoxication
irrelevant.
The Burlington Free Press reports that the state
Supreme Court sent the case back to the lobar department
Friday.