Special Fund v. Clark

OPINION OF THE COURT

This workers’ compensation appeal concerns the extent to which a claim for a gradual injury to the claimant’s knees was barred by the period of limitations contained in KRS 342.185.

Claimant’s date of birth is December 14, 1933. He has a seventh grade education, and was employed by the defendant in 1970 as a truck driver. He testified that, in addition to driving loads of steel, his duties included loading and unloading the truck and working in the warehouse which had a concrete floor. In 1985, claimant injured his right knee when he slipped in some oil. An accident report…