Hunt v. General Motors Corp.

Per Curiam:.

Defendant appeals by leave granted a January 18, 1989, order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board, which affirmed and expanded the hearing referee’s grant of partial disability benefits. We reverse.

Plaintiff began working for defendant in July, 1978. His job involved repeated lifting of seventy-pound automotive frame cross members to and from the assembly line. Plaintiff testified that he injured his back on September 6, 1978, when his foot broke through the platform on which he was standing as he reached for a cross member. Plain*350tiff contends that he further injured his back…