Mal v. Unique Building Maintenance Co.

Claimant seeks review of a Worker’s Compensation Board order reversing the referee and holding that claimant failed to prove that her carpal tunnel syndrome is compensable. Employer cross-petitions from the portion of the Board’s order holding that claimant’s psychiatric disorder is compensable. On de novo review,1 we affirm.

Claimant, 51 years old at the time of the hearing, began working for employer as a janitress in 1982. In June 1983, she suffered a compensable low back injury. Several doctors treated her in 1983 for that injury. The claim was closed by a determination order on February…