Langendorf United Bakeries, Inc. v. Industrial Accident Commission

Petitioner seeks review of an award of 100 per cent permanent disability for injuries claimed to have occurred to the respondent Holt during the course of his employment.

There is no dispute that the employee suffered a blow on the elbow while applying a wrench, and jerked his head backward and fell to the floor; that he thereafter complained of severe pains in his neck, arm and lower back. The back pains are the basis upon which the permanent award was made. Concededly the weight of the medical evidence is that the back pains were not caused by the industrial injury. The real cause was a…