Wiley v. State Accident Insurance Fund Corp.

Claimant petitions for review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board reversing the referee’s order that held that claimant was permanently and totally disabled. ORS 656.206. The Board awarded claimant 256 degrees for 80 percent permanent partial unscheduled disability. On de novo review, we reverse the Board and reinstate the referee’s order.

Claimant, a 51 year-old timber cutter, was injured on the job in January, 1981, when he was pinned underneath a tree. He suffered serious pelvic trauma, including bilateral sacroiliac joint separation, bilateral sacral and iliac fractures,…