Tag: hernia

Good Cause for Untimely Injury Claim

The Board reasoned that claimant’s lack of knowledge that he had incurred a work-related injury provided him with good cause for his failure to provide the employer with notice of an accident within the applicable 90-day period, and found that find that claimant was a credible witness and that the medical evidence supported the conclusion that the incident was a material contributing cause of the hernia condition.