O.K. Precision Tool & Die Co. v. Wells

LEIBSON, Justice.

This is a workers’ compensation case. The question is what principle controls apportionment of liability to the Special Fund where the Board finds that the employee has a “condition” which “is a result of her many years of work and should be classified as a gradual type of injury.”

The employee, Dora Goble, developed a condition diagnosed as lateral epicondylitis, an inflammation of the tensor muscles near the elbow, more commonly known as “tennis elbow,” caused by fifteen years of assembly line work imparting torque to a screwdriver. Her condition became disabling on August…