Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Walthall

Underwood, Judge.

In this workers’ compensation proceeding the board apparently felt that the claim would be determined by a resolution of the contested factual issue as to whether claimant, after his injury, had been directed to perform work such as raking up trash, which he contended he could not do, or whether he had been offered the job of picking up bottles and trash from the ground, which the board assumed was "light work” he could perform.

Thus the award denying compensation stated: "I find . . . that following [claimant’s] injury ... he reported to work and asked to be carried to a…