Claim of Rogala v. John Deere Plow Co.

Appeal from decisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed July 21, 1967, October 24, 1967 and March 27, 1968, which affirmed and *868reaffirmed the Referee’s award of compensation benefits to claimant for permanent total disability found to be due to causally related silicotub erculosis, an occupational disease. Claimant worked in the mill room of the John Deere Plow Co. foundry at 'Syracuse for 36 years during which time he was exposed to sizeable amounts of sand and iron dust, the employment ceasing in or about 1954 when the employer moved its plant from said locale. There was testimony…