Casteel v. State Accident Insurance Fund Corp.

In this Workers’ Compensation case the referee determined that claimant is permanently and totally disabled; the Board reversed, awarding 10 percent disability for a back condition. We modify the award.

Claimant is a 66-year-old woman who has been employed principally as a restaurant worker, except for work as a shipyard pipe-welder during World War II. She suffered her first compensable injury in October, 1976, when she injured her back. She was hospitalized for a week and wore a back brace for a while. She returned to work in June, 1977. In June, 1978, she suffered a job-related fracture of…