Taylor v. Multnomah County School District No. 1

Claimant seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board that adopted the order of the referee holding that he had suffered no compensable injury. We affirm.

Claimant had worked for 13 years as a custodian for employer. He was treated for back pain unrelated to his work in 1970 and in 1980. He was injured in a car accident in 1986 and has had sacroiliac back pain since then. In December, 1987, he developed lower left back and left leg pain. In January, 1988, that pain increased after he had moved school gym bleachers. On February 9, it also increased after he lifted a wrestling mat…