Weyerhaeuser Co. v. Rees

Employer seeks review of a Workers’ Compensation Board order awarding claimant permanent total disability benefits. At issue is the extent of her disability. We affirm.

In August, 1982, claimant sustained a compensable back strain while shoveling sawdust. Dr. Schachner immediately treated her, characterized the injury as an aggravation of her underlying degenerative disc disease and recommended that she not return to work at that time. Before the injury, Schachner had been treating claimant for degenerative disc disease, degenerative arthritis in her hips, a diseased rotator cuff in her right…