Claim of Slawinski v. J. H. Williams & Co.

Appeal by employer and its insurance carrier from a schedule award of compensation made by the Workmen’s Compensation Board for 45% loss of hearing in claimant’s left ear and 43.6% loss of hearing in his right ear.

*827The award was made upon the theory that claimant suffered from an occupational disease, tinnitus. Whatever the name we should say that there is clear evidence to sustain a finding that claimant suffered a partial loss of hearing because of his occupation. He worked in the forge department of the employer’s factory on machine hammers which weighed 800 to 3,000 pounds. There were…