Trevino v. State Accident Insurance Fund Corp.

Claimant seeks reversal of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board denying compensability of her claim for a knee injury, either as a new injury or as an aggravation of a 1977 injury. Although the case has developed into a procedural morass, we conclude that there was an aggravation claim made and that that claim should be allowed. Accordingly, we reverse.

Claimant is a 45-year-old farm worker, who speaks only Spanish, has never gone to school and is illiterate in any language. In July, 1977, while working for Twin Creek Farms, she fell on a trailer, striking her legs on an iron mounting.…