Kessick v. Alyeska Pipeline Service Co.

OPINION

BURKE, Justice.

In this appeal, Cecil H. Kessick, a claimant under the Alaska Worker’s Compensation Act,1 challenges a judgment of the superior court affirming the Worker’s Compensation Board’s denial of Kessick’s claim for temporary total disability compensation.2 Kessick maintains that the Board’s decision was not supported by substantial evidence. We agree and order the decision reversed.

In April 1976, Kessick was employed by Alyeska Pipeline Service Company as a heavy equipment damage appraiser. On April 18,1976, while examining some equipment at the Franklin Bluffs pipeline camp,…