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Case Name | Nabors v. Piedmont Lumber & Mill | |
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Date | 06/09/2005 | |
Note | Apportion based on percentage, not money or weeks. | |
Citation | 70 CCC 856 | |
WCC Citation | WCC 31012005 CA |
NOTE: This case has been specifically OVERRULED in Nabors vs. WCAB (A110792, 06/08/2006) WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD STATE OF CALIFORNIA Case No. SRO 0122159, SRO 0113249 DANNY NABORS, Applicant, vs. PIEDMONT LUMBER & MILL COMPANY; and STATE COMPENSATION INSURANCE FUND, Defendants. In relevant part, the WCJ also found that applicant's back and lower extremities injury caused 31% permanent disability after apportionment. On May 2, 1996, applicant sustained an admitted industrial injury to his low back "and radiating pain to both lower extremities," while employed by Piedmont Lumber & Mill Company as a "working foreman, lumber stacker, [and] forklift driver. "During a period ending August 19, 2002, applicant sustained a cumulative industrial injury to his back and lower extremities, while employed by Piedmont Lumber & Mill Company as a mill supervisor. The permanent disability directly caused by the new injury is that which took Mr. Nabors from 49% to 80%.
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