Forshee & Langley Logging v. Peckham

Employer seeks review of a Workers’ Compensation Board order on reconsideration that awarded temporary total disability benefits to an incarcerated claimant who was neither released for work nor medically stationary. We affirm.

Claimant, a timber faller, injured his back in a logging accident on September 22, 1983. One week later, his physician took him off work, and claimant began to receive temporary total disability compensation. On October 3,1984, claimant was incarcerated in a correctional facility, where he remained until June 9, 1985. During that entire time, he was neither medically…