Opinion ID: 1756883
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: The Co-Worker's Testimony

Text: In April of 1978, Inglis told the Bureau that there were two witnesses to his injury, Van Johnson and Lee Massine. In a statement dated July 23, 1979, Van Johnson stated that Inglis injured his back on February 17, 1978 while the two men were working together. Johnson thought that Inglis missed a day or two before he was able to come back. Johnson's statement says: When he came back, he told me that he had a terrible time getting home the night he was hurt because of the terrible pain in his back. At the hearing, Johnson confirmed the above statement although he said he was not certain about the date of the injury or when Inglis returned to work. Johnson was certain that Inglis injured himself while the two men were working. He remembered Inglis saying, Oh, oh. I did it. Johnson said, you could see the man was hurting by looking in his eyes and the expression on his face that he had hurt himself. On cross-examination, Johnson stated that he had written an earlier statement which got lost somehow or other. The hearing day was the first time Johnson learned of Inglis's prior back problems. In a statement taken on September 10, 1979, Lee Massine, a job foreman, said that Inglis approached him on the evening shift of February 16, 1978 and said that he thought that he had hurt or dislocated his back.