Oscar W. MOON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Otis R. BOWEN, M.D. Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee

Appellant challenges the denial of social security benefits due to his alleged total disability following several back injuries, the first of which occurred April 10, 1979, and two subsequent back operations. Finding substantial evidence in the record to support the Secretary’s conclusions, and no merit to appellant’s other contentions, we AFFIRM.

At the time appellant allegedly became disabled, he was 35 years old, had a seventh grade education and was working as a truck driver. After the first back injury, he was treated conservatively and then with a lumbar laminectomy. He told one doctor…