MERCANTE v. INDUSTRIAL COM'N OF ARIZ.

No. 1 CA-IC 3457.

153 Ariz. 261 (1987)

735 P.2d 1384

Jerry C. MERCANTE, Petitioner Employee, v. The INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION OF ARIZONA, Respondent, Georgia-Pacific Corporation, Respondent Employer, Georgia-Pacific Corporation, Respondent Carrier.

Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division 1, Department B.

April 9, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Davis & Eppstein, P.C. by Robert W. Eppstein, Tucson, for petitioner employee.

Dennis P. Kavanaugh, Chief Counsel, Industrial Com'n of Ariz., Phoenix, Lewis and Roca by R. Kent Klein, Merton E. Marks, R. Todd Lundmark, Phoenix, for respondent employer and carrier.


OPINION

KLEINSCHMIDT, Judge.

The claimant has had intermittent low back problems that began thirty years ago when he was in the service. In 1979, while he was working as a truck driver for Georgia-Pacific, he bent over to unstrap cargo and felt something snap in his left buttock. He soon developed pain in both buttocks and in the low back which was diagnosed as lumbrosacral strain with underlying osteoarthritis....

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