State ex rel. David's Cemetery v. Industrial Commission

On June 5, 1997, appellee-claimant, Larry D. Byrge, sustained an injury in the course of and arising from his employment with appellant David’s Cemetery. Five days later, Dr. Krisell D. Fedrizzi diagnosed an incisional ventral hernia. In office notes of the same date, she advised claimant to “avoid any heavy lifting and forceful pushing/pulling [until] hernia repaired.” Those restrictions were repeated in a July 18, 1997 attending physician’s questionnaire (“APQ”), which certified claimant as unable to return to any job requiring such duties from June 10, 1997 through the “present.” There is…