Claim of Mammarello v. Hubbs & Howe Co.

— Appeals from a decision and an amended decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed January 3, 1990 and October 9, 1990, which, inter alia, ruled that claimant sustained a causally related disability.

*969The Workers’ Compensation Board concluded that claimant’s repeated lifting while loading and unloading the truck he drove for the employer acted upon his quiescent arthritic back condition and that, on June 18, 1984, it precipitated a disability that had not previously existed. This conclusion was based primarily on the testimony of claimant and his physician and it was within the Board’s…