Thomason v. SAIF Corp.

Claimant seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board that awarded him 40 percent unscheduled permanent partial disability for his 1977 compensable injury.1 See ORS 656.214(5). Claimant assigns as errors that the Board reduced the referee’s award from 60 percent to 40 percent and in so doing misapplied ORS 656.222. We modify the order to award claimant 50 percent unscheduled permanent partial disability and affirm the order as modified.

Claimant, age 45, fell from a ladder on November 1, 1977, while employed as a television lineman, a job he had held for more than 18 years. He…