Matter of Compensation of Starbuck

Self-insured employer Boise Cascade Corporation (Boise) seeks judicial review of a determination by the Workers’ Compensation Board (Board) that Boise is responsible for an aggravation of claimant’s low back condition. Boise argues that a subsequent employer, insured by SAIF, is responsible under the “last injurious exposure” rule, which this court supposedly applied in Smith v. Ed’s Pancake House, 27 Or App 361, 364, 556 P2d 158 (1976). We affirm.

Claimant had no history of low back problems before 1978. His job as a barker saw operator with Boise involved facilitating the moving of logs on a…