Allied Waste Industries, Inc. v. Crawford

DEITS, J. pro tempore

Employer seeks review of a Workers’ Compensation Board order setting aside employer’s denial of claimant’s claim for a combined condition of an L4-5 herniated disc. ORS 656.298 (2003), amended by Or Laws 2005, ch 188, § 3. The board concluded that claimant’s work injury, not his preexisting degenerative disc disease, was the major contributing cause of the disability or need for treatment of the condition. ORS 656.005 (7)(a)(B).1 We affirm.

We take the following undisputed findings from the order issued by the AL J and adopted by the board:

“Claimant is 58 years old. Since…