Ferguson v. Department of Labor & Industries

The joint board of the department of labor and industries affirmed the action of the supervisor of industrial insurance in refusing to reopen appellant’s claim, and upon appeal to the superior court a judgment of dismissal was entered. This appeal resulted.

July 11, 1933, while appellant, who was at that time about fifty-two years of age, was working at a sawmill as a planer for the Northwest Lumber Company, two pieces of timber fell upon a piece of lumber, 6x6, and twenty-two feet long, which appellant was lifting. Thereupon, claimant suffered an acute pain in his back and strained his back…