Burns v. Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board

Opinion

JANES, J.

Petitioner, an industrially injured employee, seeks review and annulment of a workmen’s compensation award and an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeals Board (hereinafter, the “board”) denying reconsideration insofar as the award and order fail to allow petitioner temporary total disability compensation for the first two days of disability prior to his hospitalization.

On December 12, 1968, near the remote mountain community of Happy Camp, California, petitioner sustained an injury arising out of and occurring in the course of his employment as a construction iron worker…