Hoffman v. Bumble Bee Seafoods (No. 29147)

Defendant employer appeals from a circuit court finding in favor of a claim for workmen’s compensation. The hearing officer had denied the claim and .the Workmen’s Compensation Board had reversed, al-Jowing it.

The only question is whether the claimant carried her burden of proving that her back injury arose out of and in the course of employment. She worked as a fish, filleter' and scaler in defendant’s fish processing plant. In her claim, filed July 8,1971, she said .she was' injured in .the ribs and vertebrae on June 7, ',1971 “while scaling shad & filleting bass.”

Claimant- had been to…