Worker's Compensation Claim of McMasters v. State of Wyoming ex rel. Wyoming Workers' Safety & Compensation Division

GOLDEN, Justice.

[T1] In 2008, Jimmie McMasters (MeMasters) was working as a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) journeyman when he fell nine feet from a beam to a concrete floor and suffered a compression fracture to his L1 vertebrae. In 2008, McMasters applied for permanent total disability benefits claiming a total disability under the "odd lot" doctrine. The Wyoming Workers' Safety and Compensation Division (Division) denied the application.

[¶2] The Division did not dispute that McMasters could not return to work as an HVAC journeyman but instead contended that his failure to…