Claim of Kalendowich v. Scales

Appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. Claimant was employed as a power press operator. On November 17, 1952 he slipped and fell in the course of employment and suffered a lumbar dorsal sprain. He was allowed total disability from April 13 to June 11, 1953 and partial disability thereafter until March 17, 1954 when the case was closed. In June, 1955 the case was reopened on the claim that he had a psychoneurosis due to the accident. The board found that “ claimant’s present condition is not causally related to the accident”. There is abundant proof in the record to…