Ohio Valley Construction Co. v. Jackson

In this employer’s appeal from a workers’ compensation award, we consider whether the evidence supports the Industrial Commission’s finding that the claimant’s injury, sustained in an industrial accident, aggravated his pre-existing spinal stenosis and, thus, was causally related to his disability.

Raymond Jackson, a laborer employed by Ohio Valley Construction Company, sustained a disabling injury to his back in an industrial accident that occurred on January 21, 1980. The employer and its insurance carrier, Lumbermen’s Mutual Casualty Company, acknowledged that the injury, diagnosed as a…