Sargent v. Brown

Pope, Judge.

Claimant in this workers’ compensation case was injured on August 24, 1984 when he cut his left wrist and arm while using a chainsaw to cut timber. Claimant’s employer accepted the accident as compensable and began paying workers’ compensation benefits. Benefits continued to be paid until August 1986 when, at the behest of the employer, an interlocutory order was issued suspending the payment of benefits based upon claimant’s refusal to cooperate with medical treatment.

At the hearing subsequent to the issuance of the order, claimant testified that he had failed to keep…