Ketchikan Gateway Borough v. Saling

OPINION

BURKE, Justice.

This worker’s compensation case involves the question of who is liable for compensation benefits when employment with two successive employers contributes to a worker’s disability. The worker in this case, Mac Saling, was employed in 1968 as a harbor master for the City of Ketchikan. On June 13, 1968, he was seriously injured when he picked up a flashlight that had been rigged with explosives. 1 The explosion “blew off his left hand at the wrist, blew a huge hole in the abdominal wall, allowing the abdominal contents to eviscerate,” and caused “multiple shrapnel wounds…