Freyholtz v. Blackduck School District 32

OPINION

STRINGER, Justice.

This workers’ compensation matter comes before us by certiorari upon the petition of the employee to review a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals affirming the compensation judge’s determination that the employer did not have timely notice of the employee’s work-related back injury. We affirm.

On September 17, 1996, while engaged in cleaning work for the Blaekduek School District, employee Barbara Freyholtz had an onset of back pain while moving a desk. She reported the injury to her chiropractor the next day when she was seen at a previously…