BENNETT v. DEPT. OF LABOR & INDUS.

No. 46968-7.

95 Wn.2d 531 (1981)

627 P.2d 104

JACK J. BENNETT, Petitioner, v. THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIES, Respondent.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

April 23, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Critchlow & Williams, by Michael E. deGrasse, for petitioner.

Kenneth O. Eikenberry, Attorney General, and Tracy B. Madole, Jr., Assistant, for respondent.


ROSELLINI, J.

In December 1973, the petitioner suffered an injury to his lower back while working as a carpenter. He had received a previous back injury in Oregon in 1959. Treatment for that injury had involved three surgeries. Nine months after the last surgery, a laminectomy, the petitioner returned to work and had been employed as a carpenter thereafter, working for various employers and in various locations until the occurrence in 1973. After that injury, he was...

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