Yocom v. Keene

VANCE, Commissioner.

This is an appeal by the Special Fund from the judgment of the Pike Circuit Court sustaining an award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board for total and permanent disability resulting from the occupational disease of pneumoconiosis and/or silicosis.

The claimant-appellee, Poyster Keene, was employed for approximately twenty years as an underground coal miner. On or about May 1, 1972, he ceased work and soon thereafter filed a -claim for workmen’s compensation benefits. His work history as shown on’his Form 11 indicated a period of unemployment from March 16, 1970, until…