Claim of Burley v. American Locomotive Co.

Appeal by a self-insured employer from a decision awarding claimant compensation for temporary partial disability. The employer asserts that the medical evidence does not support a finding of temporary partial disability and claims, in any event, that the board improperly determined the compensation rate. Claimant was employed as an electrician and for three years performed much of his work in the chemical department where he received considerable overtime pay. There he was exposed to nickel fumes and contracted a facial dermatitis; upon the advice of a physician he ceased to work in that…