Dynea USA, Inc. v. Fairbanks

This case requires us to determine whether the Workers’ Compensation Board correctly concluded that claimant’s condition — a methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection — was an injury as opposed to a disease for purposes of the Workers’ Compensation Law. For a disease to be compensable, employment conditions must be the major contributing cause of the disease, ORS 656.802(2)(a), whereas, for an injury to be compensable, work need only be a material contributing cause of the injury, Coleman v. SAIF, 203 Or App 442, 446, 125 P3d 845 (2005). The board concluded that claimant’s…