STATE COMP. INS. FUND v. WORKERS' COMP. APPEALS BD.

No. B235258.

204 Cal.App.4th 766 (2012)

139 Cal. Rptr. 3d 215

STATE COMPENSATION INSURANCE FUND, Petitioner, v. WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD and RIGOBERTO GARCIA, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Six.

March 28, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles S. Bentley , Patricia A. Brown and Alan R. Canfield for Petitioner.

Finestone, Schumaker and David G. Schumaker for Respondent Rigoberto Garcia.

No appearance for Respondent Workers' Compensation Appeals Board.


OPINION

GILBERT, P. J.

Rigoberto Garcia worked at Cole Ranch for approximately two months. While picking avocados from a high tree, he fell from a 24-foot ladder and suffered traumatic head injury. He filed a workers' compensation claim for psychiatric injury.

(1) Labor Code section 3208.3, subdivision (d) generally bars claims of psychiatric injury if the applicant was employed less than six months.

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