Steffen v. Target Stores

OPINION

WAHL, Justice.

The Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals affirmed the compensation judge’s determination that the employee had failed to prove a causal relation between her ordinary daily work and her lumbar back disability. We reverse and remand to the compensation judge for further proceedings.

From August 1989 through January 7, 1991, Laurie Steffen worked for Target Stores as a “zoner,” a job which required that she arrange and clean various departments of the employer’s retail stores. The job also involved periodic work stocking shelves with merchandise; and on two occasions,…