Brooks v. Timber

In this workers’ compensation case, claimant appeals from an order of the Board which modified the opinion and order of the referee and held that surgery performed on claimant’s left knee was not causally related to a compensable industrial injury. Claimant also appeals the portion of the order reducing the attorney fee award from $750 to $450.

While working in the woods as a choker setter, claimant sustained an injury when a choker hook struck his left knee. Claimant immediately sought medical treatment and, after a series of ineffective conservative procedures, was scheduled for surgery. The…