Miller v. Wagon Trail Ranch

Claimant seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board that reversed the referee and concluded that claimant had not filed an aggravation claim within the statutory time period. We affirm.

The Board adopted the referee’s findings of fact:

“Claimant is a 59 year old maintenance man who was removing a sprinkler head on September 29, 1983, when he heard his back pop and had an immediate onset of excruciating low back pain. The following day he began treating with Dr. Ries, a chiropractor, who diagnosed acute lumbar and cervical sprain with muscle spasms. Dr. Ries began conservative…