Legal Opinion
Lockheed Shipbuilding v. Director, Office of Workers Compensation Programs, U.S. Department of Labor
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 23, 1991No. 91-70106PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DAVID R. THOMPSON, Circuit Judge:
This appeal arises under the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, 33 U.S.C. § 901 et seq. (“the Act”).
On June 4, 1984, Mehmet Sekin, an employee of Lockheed Shipbuilding Company (“Lockheed”) who had worked for Lockheed since at least 1977, experienced extreme pain in his back radiating down into his right leg while fitting steel I-Beams into a deck frame with a 16-pound hammer. The administrative law judge (“AD”) found that Sekin was disabled by this injury, but granted Lockheed relief under section 8(f) of the Act. The Benefits Review Board…
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