Schnurrer v. Hoerner-Waldorf

KELLEY, Justice.

The Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals (WCCA) held that the employee had not proved Gillette-type injuries to his knee and back and vacated findings of a compensation judge concerning temporary total and permanent partial disabilities and their apportionment between insurers. We conclude the evidence as a whole does not support this conclusion and, therefore, reverse.

Employee worked as a paper baler for Hoerner-Waldorf beginning in 1947. The work required him to stand constantly on a cement floor, to climb up and down steps from 50 to 100 times each shift, to bend and…