SAIF Corp. v. Falconer

Employer petitions for review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board (Board) in which the Board held that claimant had proved that a neck condition, “torticollis,” was compensable under ORS 656.802, the “mental disorder” provisions of the occupational disease law. We affirm.

Claimant worked as a certified nursing assistant at employer’s residential care facility in eight-hour shifts. Her schedule was three days on and three days off. She normally cared for eight to ten residents per shift. On March 19,1995, one of the nurses scheduled to work was absent, but a new employee was there.…