Claim of Detenbeck v. General Motors Corp.

Claimant sustained a back injury while employed in appellant’s industrial plant in Buffalo, Few York. The nature of the work in which he was engaged was not such as to produce disabilities of this description among the rank and file of men. This condition in claimant’s case was due to a congenital defect of the spine. He has not been held to have sustained an industrial accident; workmen’s compensation has been awarded upon the theory that he is the victim of an occupational disease. In affirming, the Appellate Division thus summarized the undisputed facts: ‘ ‘ While a normal person would not…