Claim of Buchanan v. Bethelhem Steel Co.

Upon a finding by the Workmen’s Compensation Board that on November 29, 1948, claimant contracted an occupational disease due to his employment while engaged in piling steel, this court and the Court of Appeals affirmed (278 App. Div. 594, affd. 302 N. Y. 848). The nature of the disease thus found by the board was ‘ ‘ low back strain with muscle spasm ’ ’.

There was proof in that record that claimant had “a 25% spondylolisthesis, which is a congenitally weak back ’ ’; that because of this condition he “ was prone to sustain a muscle *363strain, or strain in that region and that the “ work…