Anderson v. State Accident Insurance Fund Corp.

Claimant appeals an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board that reversed the referee’s determination that claimant’s respiratory condition is a compensable occupational disease. He contends on appeal that he has met his burden of showing that his chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and related respiratory ailments arose from conditions to which he was subjected on the job. ORS 656.802(l)(a). We review de novo, ORS 656.298(6), and affirm.

At the time he filed his occupational disease claim in January, 1980, claimant had worked for the Hanna Nickel Smelting Company for 23 years. For the last…