Claim of Buchanan v. Bethlehem Steel Co.

Appeal by a self-insured employer from an award made by the Workmen’s Compensation Board to claimant for disability found to have resulted from an occupational disease. The employer was engaged in the manufacture of steel products and claimant was employed as a cradleman in connection therewith. His work consisted of piling various articles of steel, some of which were of great weight, and binding them up so they could be lifted by a crane. This work embraced a considerable lifting and pulling of the products involved. Claimant worked for about four years at such work without difficulty, but…