Vespers v. Springs Mills, Inc.

Ness, Justice:

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court holding that the South Carolina Industrial Commission did not have jurisdiction over appellant Edna Vespers’ occupational disease claim. We reverse.

*96Appellant was employed by respondent Springs Mills, Inc., for a period of nine months before she filed her claim for the occupational disease, byssinosis. Prior to this employment in South Carolina, she had been exposed to cotton dust in the same type of employment (textiles) for seventeen years in North Carolina.

The sole issue raised is whether appellant’s claim satisfies the…