Beauchamp v. North Dakota Workmen's Compensation Bureau

MORRIS, Chief Justice.

On June 1, 1961, the respondent, Safford Beauchamp, filed a claim with the North Dakota Workmen’s Compensation Bureau for compensation and medical expenses for an injury which he claimed to have sustained in the course of his employment as sandblaster. The injury was caused by the inhalation of sand while working for an insured employer in connection with the construction of the Garrison Dam for a period of about nine months in 1958 which resulted in the claimant contracting the occupational disease silicosis. The claimant’s ailment was diagnosed as silicosis on May 9,…