Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Johnson

Employer seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board that awarded permanent partial disability to claimant and a penalty and attorney fee. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

Claimant’s work involved frequent exposure to low temperatures. After a few years on the job, he suffered a work-related worsening of his underlying Raynaud’s Phenomenon, which, until that time, had been asymptomatic. Employer contested the compensability of claimant’s condition. We affirmed the Board’s order, in which it held that claimant had a compensable worsening of an occupational disease. Safeway…