Amfac, Inc. v. Ingram

Employer seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board that reversed the referee and held that petitioner’s claim was compensable as an occupational disease. ORS 656.802. We reverse.

After not working for six years, claimant began to work at the employer’s processing plant on February 1, 1982. She inspected potatoes on a conveyor and trimmed out defective portions. She handled about 16 potatoes per minute and made two or three knife trims to each potato. Claimant is right-handed and held the trim knife in her right hand. Within about two weeks she began to have numbness and…