Willamette Industries, Inc. v. Titus

Willamette Industries, Inc., a self-insured employer, seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board (Board) assigning it responsibility for claimant’s 1994 injury. We review for errors of law and substantial evidence, ORS 656.298(6); ORS 183.482(7) and (8), and affirm.

In 1980, while working as a log truck driver for Pope & Talbot (SAIF’s insured), claimant’s lower back began to trouble him. Without identifying a specific incident, claimant established, and SAIF accepted, a compensable lower-back strain. Although claimant’s attending physician, Dr. Golden, initially thought…