Ross v. Flightcraft, Inc.

Claimant seeks review in this workers’ compensation case. We review for substantial evidence and errors of law, ORS 656.298(6), and affirm.

The referee set aside employer’s denial of compensability on claimant’s occupational disease claim. On de novo review, the Workers’ Compensation Board reversed. It concluded that claimant had failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence, see Hutcheson v. Weyerhaeuser, 288 Or 51, 55-56, 602 P2d 268 (1979), that his employment was the major contributing cause of his hearing loss. See former ORS 656.802(1)(a); Dethlefs v. Hyster Co., 295 Or 298, 310,…