Mengel v. Hawaiian-Tropic Northwest & Central Distributors, Inc.

REVERSING WITH DIRECTIONS

Before LESTER, McDONALD and REYNOLDS, JJ. MCDONALD, Judge:

This is a Workers’ Compensation case in which the trial court affirmed the board’s denial of the appellant’s claim of occupational disability due to a back injury.

The appellant claims to have initially injured his back in June of 1976, when he stepped into a hole in the floor of the appel-lee’s warehouse while moving a pallet loaded with merchandise. His left leg was cut as it went through the floor. Dr. Gordon, a general practitioner, examined him, treated the leg, diagnosed back sprain and prescribed a…