Barnett v. Natural Gas Pipeline Co.

Wendell L. Griffen, Judge.

David Barnett has appealed the decision of the Workers’ Compensation Commission that denied his workers’ compensation claim upon a finding that he failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that his back injury occurred as the result of a specific incident identifiable in time and place of occurrence. On appeal, Barnett asserts that: 1) the Commission erred in failing to find that he was excused from providing notice of his injury to his employer; 2) he has shown with substantial evidence that he sustained a compensable injury identifiable by time and place…