What the panel ordered
The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board denied the defendant's petition for reconsideration and upheld the WCJ's finding that the applicant's occupational group number was 460.
Defendant filed a petition for reconsideration of the WCJ's Partial Findings of Fact and Orders dated June 24, 2022, challenging the occupational group number assigned to the applicant.
What was disputed, and how it came out
Each issue the panel decided, with the reasoning it gave. An outcome is what this panel did on this record — not a rule, and not a prediction.
The WCJ's finding that the applicant's occupational group number was 460 was supported by credible testimony that the applicant performed duties consistent with that occupational group, including restraining aggressive patients, which was not contradicted by the defendant.
From the decision · page 3Applicant's uncontroverted testimony that he was required to assist in the physical restraint of combative patients provides evidentiary support for the WCJ's finding that applicant performed duties consistent with occupational group number 460. (Holt, supra.)
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.