Sunshine Plumbing v. Benecke

THOMPSON, Judge.

The employer/carrier (EC) appeal a workers’ compensation order' which found that the claimant’s 1987 fall and injury were caused by residual leg problems from claimant’s 1983 compensable injury, and awarded medical benefits, costs and attorney’s fees. We agree with the EC that claimant failed to sustain his initial burden of proving that a causal connection exists *163between the 1983 injury and the 1987 fall, and we reverse the award.

Claimant is a 33-year-old man employed by the EC in 1983 as a laborer. On July 6, 1983, claimant injured his low back in an accident accepted as…