Thompson v. State Accident Insurance Fund Corp.

In this workers’ compensation case, claimant appeals an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board (Board) which affirmed the hearing referee’s denial of claimant’s occupational disease claim. ORS 656.802(l)(a). Claimant contends the Board erred in determining that claimant failed to establish that her allergic condition was compensable. We affirm.

Claimant began work in employer’s department store in 1967. The first five years of her employment were medically uneventful. Beginning in the sixth year, however, she began to experience a progressive onset of symptoms, including headaches, dizzy…