Weyerhaeuser Co. v. Kepford

*412BUTTLER, J.

Employer seeks review of a Workers’ Compensation Board order requiring it to pay claimant temporary total disability benefits from February 20, 1981, the date of the onset of his disability.

Claimant, age 63 at the time of the hearing, has not worked since February 20, 1981, when he left his job because of back pain. He underwent surgery in October, 1981, and sought compensation for an aggravation of a 1974 compensable injury. Employer denied the claim, whereupon claimant filed a new claim based on an occupational disease theory. Employer also denied that claim. A referee and the…