Reece v. St. Joseph Lead Co.

DOWD, Judge.

This is a workmen’s compensation case involving a claim by an employee against his employer and self-insurer for the occupational disease of lead intoxication. The employer by its answer denied the claim. At the hearing before the Referee the employer admitted inter alia that the employee had been exposed to lead dust and fumes during his employment but denied the employee sustained lead intoxication.

The Referee found in favor of the employee and awarded him compensation for permanent partial disability of 10% of the body as a whole which amounts to $1,880 for lead intoxication.…