Garner v. Hecla Mining Company

CROCKETT, Chief Justice:

Plaintiffs, the widow and children of Douglas Garner, attack the findings and order of the Industrial Commission denying benefits for his death which they contend resulted from an occupational disease caused *369from working as a uranium miner for the defendant Hecla Mining Company.

Mr. Garner had worked in and around uranium mines since 1940, IS years of it underground. The last eight years had been in Utah, four years of that for the defendant Hecla Mining Company. He became ill and was hospitalized on July 14, 1963. Tests were taken which revealed extensive…