Roseburg Forest Products v. Ferguson

Employer seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board holding that emergency room treatment of claimant’s surgical incision resulting from compensable carpal tunnel surgery is compensable.

Activities of claimant’s employment caused carpal tunnel syndrome, which employer accepted as compensable and for which claimant received surgery. One week after the carpal tunnel surgery, claimant fell at home and his sutures came out. He went to the emergency room for repair of the sutures. Employer refused to pay the emergency room bill, contending that the fall at home, rather than the…