Claim of Lumsden v. Despatch Shops, Inc.

The controversy in this case lies between two insurance carriers as to responsibility for impairment of bearing found to be an occupational disease. From July, 1925 to April, 1954 claimant worked for tbe same employer at a steel •mill in which railroad cars were made.

During a substantial part of this period, until May of 1946, he was riveter in a noise-laden environment. He then worked as a “ fitter ” in the same plant; and since he did that at lower wages than riveting and at the suggestion of a physician who had examined his hearing, it seems reasonable to think that from May, 1946 until…