Teledyne Wah Chang v. Vorderstrasse

Employer seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board that reversed the referee and concluded that claimant’s occupational disease claim is compensable.1 We reverse and remand.

Claimant injured his right wrist while using a pneumatic grinder at work in 1982. The claim was accepted by employer as nondisabling. In 1983, claimant filed a claim for additional medical services for his right wrist, which employer denied. Claimant then began experiencing left wrist pain, for which he received medical treatment. The parties eventually stipulated that employer would pay for medical…