Van Derzanden v. State Accident Insurance Fund Corp.

Claimant appeals from an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board reversing the referee’s award of 30 percent for permanent partial disability and reinstating the determination order award of 5 percent. He also seeks award of attorney fees at the Board level for increasing two penalty awards and an attorney fee award at the hearing level. We modify the award.

On January 9, 1980, claimant, 49, was injured on the job when he slipped and fell on an icy slope, hitting his head and back. At the time of the injury, he was plant superintendent for the City of Gresham water-treatment facility and had…