Streyle v. Steiner Corp.

This is an appeal from a circuit court order affirming the Division of Labor and Management's decision to dismiss Huida Streyle’s petition for worker’s compensation because of her failure to provide written or actual notice of a work-related injury. We reverse and remand.

Huida Streyle (claimant) is a fifty-year-old woman with an eighth grade education and a history of back problems. She applied for employment with the Steiner Corporation in 1976 and asked for a job with “no heavy lifting.” She was hired as a laundress.

On August 15, 1979, claimant had a hysterectomy. She returned to work on…