Green Bay Drop Forge Co. v. Industrial Commission

*42Currie, J.

Counsel for the respondent employer and its insurance carrier advance the following two contentions for affirmance of the trial court’s determination that the employee cannot as a matter of law recover workmen’s compensation for the partial permanent loss of hearing he has sustained as a result of the noise to which his ears were subjected in the course of his employment by the employer:(1) The employee sustained no wage loss and without such wage loss there can be no disability arising from occupational disease which is compensable under the Workmen’s Compensation Act; and(2) An…