Troska v. Industrial Commission

HAIRE, Judge.

On this review of an Industrial Commission award we are asked to set aside the Commission’s findings that it lacked jurisdiction to consider the petitioner’s claim because of his failure to timely file an application for benefits.

On February 26, 1968, the petitioner, Charles Richard Troska, filed with the Industrial Commission his “Workman’s Report of Injury and Application for Benefits” relating to a back injury alleged to-have occurred approximately nineteen months earlier in July 1966 when his chair collapsed and he fell to the floor. A.R.S. § 23-1061 D 1 provides that:

“No…