Elgersma v. DePaul Health Center

KAROHL, Judge.

Claimant, Lisa Ann Elgersma, appeals from an order of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission (Commission) affirming a decision of the Administrative Law Judge (AU) which denied claimant an award on her claim for worker’s compensation because she failed to give notice of injury and the happening thereof within thirty days after accident as required by § 287.420 RSMo 1986. She filed a claim based on a condition attributable to carpal tunnel syndrome, an occupational disease. We reverse and remand.

Since 1983 DePaul Health Center has employed claimant as a diet aide. On…