Baker v. Liberty Northwest Insurance

Claimant seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board determining that his occupational disease claim for a left shoulder condition was untimely under ORS 656.807(1). We affirm.

Claimant is a journeyman electrician who has worked for multiple employers since 1997. He worked for Frahler Electric, Liberty Northwest’s insured, for a period of approximately seven and one-half months in 2002. In the spring of2002, while working for Frahler, claimant began to experience left shoulder pain. After an MRI, Dr. Sedgewick diagnosed left shoulder posterior subluxation and glenohumeral…