Henry v. State Accident Insurance Fund

*797GILLETTE, J.

State Accident Insurance Fund (SAIF) seeks reversal of the Workers’ Compensation Board (Board) determination that claimant’s foot condition is compensable. Both SAIF and the referee had denied compensation. SAIF contends that claimant did not adequately establish that his condition was work-related. We agree and reverse.

The essential facts are as follows: When claimant was about 14, he began working as a farm laborer, which involved working twelve hours a day (on his feet all but half an hour), seven days a week, eight or nine months a year. He moved to Oregon in 1972 and began…