Zeigler Coal Co. v. Industrial Commission

On April 23, 1986, claimant, John A. Waggoner, filed an application for adjustment of claim pursuant to the Workers’ Occupational Diseases Act (Act) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 48, par. 172.36 et seq.). He alleged impairment to his heart and lungs due to inhalation of coal and rock dust during a 40-year period of employment with respondent, Zeigler Coal Company. After a hearing held on September 14, 1989, the arbitrator found that claimant’s condition of ill being was causally related to his employment and that it arose out of and in the course of his employment. Further, the arbitrator found…