Folkenberg v. State Accident Insurance Fund Corp.

Claimant appeals from an order of the Worker’s Compensation Board reversing the referee’s determination that claimant’s knee injury is compensable. We reverse.

The facts surrounding claimant’s injury are essentially undisputed. He was employed as a mechanic. On June 18, 1982, he suffered a knee injury while walking across the shop floor after answering his employer’s telephone. He testified that he felt a sudden “snap or a terrific pain” in his left knee and then could not put any weight on it. He stumbled but did not fall to the floor. Claimant was hospitalized that day and, on June 23,…