Pinion v. H. C. Smith Construction Co.

The employer and insurer bring this appeal from an order of the Workers’ Compensation Court upholding a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Division which granted claimant a waiver of the one-year period for filing a claim for compensation under section 39-71-601(2), MCA.

*104The issue in this case is based solely on testimony of claimant and his wife before the Administrator of the Divison of Workers’ Compensation. Claimant Lester E. Pinion, employed as an iron worker by H. C. Smith Construction Company, was injured on the job at the end of his shift on May 31, 1978, when he stepped into a hole…