Tashner v. Industrial Commission

The accident was not reported to the commission until August 17, 1942. Later that year a formal claim was filed. Petitioner was awarded compensation totaling $2,102.47 for the period August 17, 1942, to November 29, 1943. During all of the year 1943, up to November 8th, the petitioner was under the care and observation of doctors whose services were paid for by the commission. The only objective symptoms discovered were a very narrow disc space between the vertebral body and base of the sacrum, causing them to be almost in contact, and a condition described as fascitis, an inflammation of the tissues covering the left buttock muscles of a cordlike character. Either of these conditions could have resulted from the trauma (pressure) and strain (tearing) incident to the injury. The subjective symptoms were continual pain and tenderness in the region of the lower vertebrae on the left side and the left buttock. Various tests applied rule out any possibility that petitioners condition was the result of any disease, infection, constitutional or postural defect. Prior to the accident he had never suffered from backache, had sustained no injury and lost no time. He was not malingering.