Hurley v. Industrial Commission

OGG, Judge.

This is an appeal from an award of The Industrial Commission in which the petitioner, Phillip Hurley, was denied an award for disability suffered as the result of a herniated disc at the C-5, C-6 level. The principal question presented to us for review is whether there was a causal connection between the herniated disc and petitioner’s employment.

Petitioner was born in 1924 and had spent most of his adult life working as an automobile mechanic. In January, 1971 petitioner first noticed pains in his shoulder while working for Galloway Motors in Tucson, Arizona, performing automobile…