LOCKHEED SHIPBUILDING v. DIRECTOR, OWCP

No. 91-70106.

951 F.2d 1143 (1991)

LOCKHEED SHIPBUILDING, Petitioner, v. DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF WORKERS COMPENSATION PROGRAMS, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided December 23, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell A. Metz, Metz & Frol, Seattle, Wash., for petitioner.

Samuel J. Oshinski, U.S. Dept. of Labor, Washington, D.C., for respondent.

Mehmet Sekin, Seattle, Wash., claimant proceeding pro se.

Before WRIGHT, Senior Circuit Judge, THOMPSON and T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

DAVID R. THOMPSON, Circuit Judge:

This appeal arises under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, 33 U.S.C. § 901 et seq. ("the Act").

On June 4, 1984, Mehmet Sekin, an employee of Lockheed Shipbuilding Company ("Lockheed") who had worked for Lockheed since at least 1977, experienced extreme pain in his back radiating down into his right leg while fitting steel I-Beams into a deck frame with a 16-pound hammer. The administrative...

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