Cable v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

RODGERS, Senior Judge.

Kenneth Cable (Claimant) petitions for review of an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which reversed a referee’s determination that Claimant’s occupational disease was discovered within three hundred weeks of his last date of employment with Gulf Oil/Chevron USA, Inc. (Employer). We reverse.

The following facts are not disputed on appeal. Claimant was employed with Employer from July, 1970 until March 30, 1983. For the first two to three years of his employment, Claimant’s work involved cleaning the inside of a unit which manufactured benzene and…