Lopez v. Agripac, Inc.

Claimant seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board that reduced his scheduled award of permanent partial disability for loss of use or function of his left knee from 19 percent to five percent. We review for substantial evidence and errors of law, ORS 183.482(7), (8), and affirm.

The Board made the following findings, which claimant agrees “are sufficient for the purposes of this review”: In 1989, claimant injured his left knee in a nonwork-related car accident. His doctor diagnosed “internal derangement of the left knee,” and claimant underwent arthroscopic correction of a…