Topolic v. Saif Corp.

Claimant seeks review of a Workers’ Compensation Board (Board) order holding that he did not have an unscheduled disability and was not entitled to permanent total disability. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

Claimant was born in Yugoslavia in 1941 and speaks with a heavy accent. His education is limited to four years of elementary school and four years of trade school in Yugoslavia. He sustained a compensable injury in October, 1988, in a fall from a scaffold. In November, 1988, Dr. Gilsdorf, his treating physician, found that claimant could only perform sedentary to light work because…