Mahan v. Industrial Commission

HAIRE, Judge.

The sole question presented on review is whether there was reasonable evidence to support the finding of the Industrial Commission that petitioner has no permanent disability attributable to his industrial accident.

Petitioner sustained an industrially related back sprain while performing his duties as a fireman with the Tucson Fire Department. A subsequent physical examination disclosed the presence of a congenital anomaly (a structural variation in the way petitioner’s low back was constructed at birth), which petitioner’s sprain had aggravated. During the hearings before the…