WCD File No. On review, the issue is the propriety of the ALJ's dismissal order. We vacate the dismissal order and remand. In June 1996, claimant made a claim for hearing loss with his current employer and several former employers, including Barrett Business Services, Pacific Fabricators, Inc. and T-Plus Steel Fabricators. We vacate the ALJ's order and remand.
Remand is appropriate on a showing of good cause or some other compelling basis.
In this case, claimant has represented in his appellant's brief that the other carriers against whom he has asserted his hearing loss claim have denied both compensability of and responsibility for his condition. However, the record before us establishes only that SAIF has denied responsibility and moved for dismissal. It appears from the ALJ's notes regarding the telephone conference on SAIF's motion to dismiss that claimant sought to consolidate his request for hearing as to SAIF's denial with his other hearing requests. This provision provides, in pertinent part, that all requests for hearing on responsibility denials for a claim shall be consolidated into one proceeding. On remand, the ALJ is directed to determine whether the compensability of claimant's hearing loss condition has been conceded or determined.