Boyd v. Dana Corp.

Margaret Meads, Judge.

Appellant, James Boyd, appeals a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Commission that denied his claim for benefits on the finding that he failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that his carpal tunnel syndrome was caused by rapid repetitive motion. The Commission also found that appeEant failed to prove the aEeged compensable injury is the major cause of his disability or need for treatment.

Boyd, a forty-six-year-old man who has diabetes, worked for appeUee for sixteen years. In May 1995 he noticed numbness and tingling in his right hand. He continued to…