Claim of Durdaller v. Liberty Products Corp.

Appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. Claimant is suffering from a glandular disease which results in extreme obesity. His weight is at least 375 pounds, and a physician who examined him and who was unable to weigh him on his office scale, estimated the weight to be about 500 pounds. The extreme obesity itself was obvious and the employer knew when claimant was hired that the obesity was due to the disease since there had been a pre-employment physical examination. Claimant was put to work preparing airplane parts for painting, a job for which it was difficult to find…