Salt River Project v. Industrial Commission

OPINION

JACOBSON, Judge.

This petition for review of an award of the Industrial Commission raises the problem of assessing the industrial responsibility for a reopening where the medical testimony indicates that the claimant’s present condition is causally the combination of two different industrial injuries which are the responsibility of two different carriers.

The respondent workman, Donald M. Reeves, has been continuously employed as a lineman by the petitioner, Salt River Project (SRP), for over 21 years. In 1965, Reeves, as the result of a fall from a power pole, sustained an injury to his…