Ogden v. Thompson

TROUT, Justice.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Idaho Industrial Commission (Commission) finding that appellant’s disk herniation and radiculopathy were not the result of an injury caused by a work accident nor an occupational disease contracted in the course of appellant’s employment. We affirm the decision of the Industrial Commission.

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BACKGROUND

Walter J. Ogden (Ogden) was forty-one years of age at the time of his hearing and has worked primarily in grocery stores and mechanical occupations over the course of his employment life, beginning at age fifteen. From November of 1978…