Saenger v. Liberty Carton Co.

SHERAN, Chief Justice.

Certiorari to review a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals which, with one judge dissenting, determined that employee was not temporarily and totally disabled from and after August 16, 1977, but had removed himself from the labor market. We affirm.

Employee sustained a serious low back injury in 1942 while in the Marines. In 1950, several years after his discharge, he developed back pain and underwent a lami-nectomy which apparently was successful. After his recovery he returned to his work as a steel rule die maker, a job requiring much standing and…