Boeing Co. v. Young

Employer seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board setting aside employer’s denial and back-up denial of claimant’s claims arising from his exposure to toxic fumes at work.

In August, 1989, an incident occurred at the plant where claimant worked involving a compound used to seal the inside of gearboxes: A mixture of a styrene monomer and a polymerizing catalyst, dicumyl peroxide, overflowed while being heated in an oven. Claimant said that he smelled an “extremely foul odor, no sweetness” when he walked through the area adjacent to the spill and that he immediately became…