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<bold>Workers' Compensation — occupational disease —</bold> <bold>specific traumatic event</bold> <block_quote> The Industrial Commission erred in a workers' compensation case by concluding that plaintiff employee bus driver's ulnar nerve entrapment neuropathy and cervical spine condition were compensable occupational diseases and that the injury to the cervical spine qualified as a specific traumatic incident, and the case is remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion, because: (1) the Commission applied an incorrect legal standard in finding plaintiff's ulnar neuropathy and cervical spine condition to be compensable occupational diseases pursuant to N.C.G.S. § <cross_reference>97-53</cross_reference>(13) and the cervical spine condition to be a specific traumatic incident pursuant to N.C.G.S. § <cross_reference>97-2</cross_reference>(6); (2) plaintiff failed to establish that his employment placed him at a greater risk of contracting either his ulnar nerve entrapment or his cervical spine condition than the general public; and (3) the evidence is not sufficient to satisfy the requirements enunciated by the General Assembly in N.C.G.S. § <cross_reference>97-2</cross_reference>(6) that a specific traumatic incident occurred when plaintiff presented evidence that he experienced pain on a particular date but he presented no evidence linking that pain to the occurrence of an injury, and none of plaintiff's evidence establishes a specific traumatic incident of the work assigned that can be construed as an injury by accident to plaintiff's back.</block_quote> <block_quote> Justice MARTIN did not participate in the consideration or decision of this case.</block_quote>