MATTER OF COMPENSATION OF WILSON

No. 80-06346; CA A23560.

654 P.2d 1154 (1982)

In the matter of the Compensation of Lester J. Wilson, Claimant. Willamette Poultry Company and State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation, Petitioners, v. LESTER J. WILSON, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Oregon.

Argued and Submitted May 12, 1982.

Reconsideration Denied January 21, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter L. Barnhisel, Corvallis, argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the brief was Fenner, Barnhisel, Morris & Willis, Corvallis.

Robert W. Muir, Albany, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Emmons, Kyle, Kropp & Kryger, Albany.

Before GILLETTE, P.J., and WARDEN and YOUNG, JJ.


WARDEN, Judge.

The issue in this workers' compensation case is the extent of claimant's disability. Employer seeks reversal of a Board order affirming the referee's award of permanent total disability.

Claimant, a 41-year-old truck driver, suffered a lumbo-sacral strain while placing a pallet jack onto his truck. Back surgery, a laminectomy and diskectomy, was performed on October 13, 1979, two months after the accident...

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