Claim of Detenbeck v. General Motors Corp.

Appeal by a self-insured employer from an award of disability compensation made to claimant by the Workmen’s Compensation Board. Claimant was employed as a salvage inspector, and his duties required him, at least intermittently, to lift heavy pieces of scrap iron from the floor of the plant in which he was employed. This work involved bending his body as well as lifting. There is substantial evidence to sustain the finding that he became disabled because of back strain with nerve irritation because of such work. The board has found that claimant’s condition was an occupational disease.…