Foundry v. Tune

Opinion

BAKER, J.

Foundry (employer) appeals from a decision of the Industrial Commission (Commission) which awarded workers’ compensation benefits to one of its employees, Goldie E. Tune (claimant), who claims that he is suffering from an occupational disease (silicosis).1

Claimant filed two separate claims alleging that the silicosis condition had been diagnosed. The first claim, filed on June 10, *2971981, asserted that a diagnosis of silicosis had been communicated to him on May 29, 1981. That claim, which the Commission designated as File Number 101-04-64, relied upon an x-ray of claimant’s…