Opinion ID: 1925757
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Treatment of Repetitive Trauma as Accident

Text: American Tool next argues that the workers' compensation court should have treated the injury as an occupational disease instead of an accident. [11] We recently refused to overrule precedent holding that repetitive trauma injuries are accidents and not occupational diseases. Dawes v. Wittrock Sandblasting & Painting, 266 Neb. 526, 667 N.W.2d 167 (2003). We have held that while such cases have some characteristics of both an accidental injury and an occupational disease, the compensability of a condition resulting from the cumulative effects of work-related trauma is to be tested under the statutory definition of accident. Id. We have reviewed American Tool's argument on this issue and determine it is without merit.