Opinion
No. AI-3.
August 13, 1982.
Appeal from the Deputy Commissioner.
James T. Walker, of Brennan, McAliley, Hayskar, McAliley Jefferson, Fort Pierce, for appellant.
Vincent A. Lloyd, of Lloyd, Brown, Hoskins Becht, Fort Pierce, for appellee.
The employer/carrier (E/C) appeal a workers' compensation order finding that claimant sustained a compensable emotional injury on February 6, 1981.
There must be an actual physical injury or trauma upon which to predicate compensation for a neurosis. See Superior Mill Work v. Gabel, 89 So.2d 794 (Fla. 1956); Williams v. Hillsborough County School Board, 389 So.2d 1218 (Fla. 1st DCA 1980), pet. for rev. den., 397 So.2d 780 (Fla. 1981); Sunland Training Center — Miami v. Johnson, 9 FCR 172, cert. den. 315 So.2d 477 (Fla. 1975). There is no competent substantial evidence to show that claimant suffered a physical injury or trauma which precipitated her mental condition. The finding of compensability is therefore reversed.
LARRY G. SMITH, JOANOS and THOMPSON, JJ., concur.