Cable v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

OPINION ANNOUNCING THE JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

FLAHERTY, Justice.

This appeal involves the statutory construction of the limitations period for occupational disease under the workers’ compensation law, specifically raising the question whether the manifestation of the disease must occur within three hundred weeks after exposure to the hazard or within three hundred weeks after employment in the occupation in which the exposure occurred. This is the sole question in the case, for there is no dispute as to the relevant facts.

Appellee, Kenneth Cable, worked approximately twelve years for appellant…