Lambert Construction Co. v. Beamon

WENTWORTH, Judge.

Employer/carrier seek review of a workers’ compensation order by which benefits were awarded upon a determination that claimant sustained a compensable injury rendering him temporarily totally disabled. We affirm the order appealed.

Claimant is a laborer who testified that after he fell while digging a trench at work he experienced weakness and severe inflammation of his lower leg. Although he had suffered from recurrent episodes of thrombophlebitis for over fifteen years claimant had nevertheless been able to maintain strenuous laboring employment despite occasional leg…