Dehlbom v. STATE, INDUS. SPECIAL INDEMN. FUND

TROUT, Justice.

This worker’s compensation appeal arises from an order of the Industrial Commission (Commission) finding that claimant Wayne Dehlbom is not totally permanently disabled and that, even if Dehlbom were totally and permanently disabled, the Industrial Special Indemnity Fund would not be liable.

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BACKGROUND

In 1989, claimant Wayne Dehlbom began work as a welder for Fausett International (Fausett). At that time, Dehlbom was fifty-four years old, held a two-year machinist’s degree, and had worked as a welder since 1960 for various employers. In March of 1990, at the age of fifty-five,…