Pacific Fruit Express v. Industrial Commission

*207OPINION

JACOBSON, Judge.

This is an appeal of an award finding a compensable claim for a gradual loss of hearing. The main issue in this review is whether an admission by the claimant that he knew more than one year prior to filing a claim that he suffered a hearing loss and that the loss wás the result of noise levels at his employment bars his claim under A.R.S. § 23-1061(A). Collateral issues deal with the burden of proof under A.R.S. § 23-908(D) and whether the claimant in any event suffered a compensable injury.

The claimant, Isidoro Verdugo, has worked for Pacific Fruit since 1948 except…