Key legal question
Whether the later-diagnosed fractures of thoracic vertebrae 6 and 8 were causally linked to the accidents covered by SUVA.
Extracted holding
The alleged natural causal link was not proven with the requisite probability.
Extracted reasoning
The record showed no fresh fracture after the 2002 fall, and the evidence did not support that the 1986 or 2002 accidents caused the later-found fractures; the court found the trauma from the thoracotomy to be at most a possible alternative explanation.