New Pueblo Constructors v. Industrial Commission

JACOBSON, Presiding Judge.

We are asked, by this review of an award of the Industrial Commission, to determine whether the medical evidence reasonably supports the conclusion that claimant’s herniated disc was caused or “aggravated” by an industrial episode.

The legal issues of this case are framed in the following factual posture. On September 23, 1974, while in the employ of New Pueblo Constructors, Inc., and subsequent to loading panels onto a pickup truck during his lunch hour, Manny O. Arriola, the respondent employee, experienced stiffness in his low back. The pain subsided until…