Fields Plastics of Tennessee, Inc. v. Ownby

OPINION

FONES, Chief Justice.

Employer, Fields Plastics of Tennessee, Inc., appeals from a workmen’s compensation award of 25% permanent partial disability to the body as a whole, resulting from the occupational disease of contact dermatitis. After termination of his employment at Fields Plastics, on the recommendation of a dermatologist, Ownby worked for a roofing company for approximately three weeks and had a recurrence of contact dermatitis. He then worked for a chair company and had another recurrence of dermatitis.

The single assignment of error is directed to the imposition of liability…