Suite v. Clinchfield Coal Co.

*555Opinion

KOONTZ, C.J.

In this appeal we are asked to decide whether the employer’s application for hearing alleging a change in condition stated a lack of causal connection between the industrial injury and appellant’s disability. Finding that it did, we affirm the decision of the Industrial Commission.

Curtis J. Suite, appellant, sustained a ventral incisional hernia as a result of his August 3, 1987 industrial accident. An award was entered in Suite’s favor, and he began receiving weekly payments. On November 20, 1987, the employer filed an application for hearing to terminate benefits,…