McElmurry v. Roseburg School District

Claimant seeks review of a Workers’ Compensation Board order that denied his aggravation claim. On de novo review, we affirm.

Claimant was injured in December, 1980, while helping move a 600-pound planter. His claim was originally closed as non-disabling. In 1981, he filed an aggravation claim. That claim was closed by stipulation on September 23, 1982, with claimant receiving ten percent unscheduled permanent partial disability. By December, 1982, he believed that his condition had worsened; the pain in his back and arms and the headaches, all of which had previously been intermittent, had…