McClelland v. ITT Rayonier, Inc.

Green, J. *

Robert E. McClelland appeals a Grays Harbor County Superior Court order denying his motion for summary judgment and granting that of ITT Rayonier on review of an order of the Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals that denied McClelland's claim for workers' compensation benefits. The issue before this court is whether McClelland's psychological condition of major depression coupled with "simple phobia" is an occupational disease giving rise to a compensable disability. We affirm.

Robert McClelland was employed at ITT Rayonier's pulp mill for 25 years in a series of progressively more…