Ryf v. Hoffman Construction Company

This is an appeal by an employer and a private insurer from a judgment of the circuit court of Multnomah County in a workmen’s compensation proceeding.

The claimant, John Ryf, while employed by defendant Hoffman Construction Company, fell on his back from a height of approximately twenty feet causing a compression fracture of a vertebra and out of which a kyphotic relationship (curvature) developed.

The Closing and Evaluation Section of the Workmen’s Compensation Board made an award equal to 10% loss by separation of an arm for an unscheduled *626disability. Claimant appealed to the Hearing Officer…