Gerlach v. Champion International

This is an appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Court filed April 30, 1991, denying claimant entitlement to permanent partial disability benefits under the Workers’ Compensation Act. We affirm.

The sole issue on appeal is whether the Workers’ Compensation Court erred in determining that claimant does not suffer a disability as a result of an industrial injury which occurred in the summer of 1986.

Claimant Thomas Gerlach (Gerlach) has worked in the wood product industry for 25 years. Gerlach began his employment with Intermountain Lumber Mill which subsequently was purchased by…