ASC Contractors v. Harr

ASC Contractors, the employer in this workers’ compensation case, seeks reversal of an order on review of the Workers’ Compensation Board, which found claimant’s claim for carpal tunnel syndrome to be compensable. We affirm.1

The employer denied responsibility, because it asserted that claimant had experienced symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome before he began to work for employer. Claimant admits to having suffered intermittent numbness in the first three fingers of each of his hands. He states that he experienced those symptoms for four years before he started working for employer and that…