Charles William Andrews v. Richard Schweiker, Secretary, Health and Human Services

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

Charles William Andrews was denied disability benefits by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The District Court 1 granted the Secretary’s motion for summary judgment on the ground that there was substantial evidence on the record as a whole to support the administrative determination that Andrews was not disabled. This appeal followed. For the reasons stated below we affirm.

The claimant, at the time of the hearing, was 43 years old, had a tenth-grade education, and had, during most of his adult life, engaged in highly skilled, though physically strenuous, work…