National Zinc Company v. Hainline

BERRY, Justice.

The present proceeding was instituted under the provisions of the Occupational Disease Amendment to the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 85 O.S.Supp., 1959, Sec. 3, Sub-divisions 7 and 16.

Claimant is a laborer, 55 years of age, who from April, 1936, until some ten months prior to his discharge, worked in close proximity to zinc-processing equipment at petitioner’s smelter in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. When increasing weakness prevented him from performing regular duties in the production department, he was assigned, in March, 1957, to lighter work in the bathhouse of the plant where he…