Locks v. Boeing Co.

Gernon, J.:

This is a workers compensation appeal. The issues we must address involve the statutory presumption against work disability for workers engaged in any work for comparable preinjury wages.

Kathie Locks works at the Boeing Company — Wichita (Boeing). She began work in the deburr shop and, later, transferred to the stringer fabrication department, where she worked with heavy tools and parts.

Locks began to complain of arm and shoulder pain in the late summer of 1989. This pain caused her absence from work from September 1989 through July 1990. Locks returned to work, still in pain,…