Claim of Eckert v. Commander Larabee Manufactoring Co.

Appeal from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board allowing disability compensation and death benefits. The claimant’s husband was employed as a millwright foreman in a flour milling plant. His work was largely performed in a carpenter shop in the mill where he was not especially affected by dust, but at times he worked in other portions of the mill where there was exposure to flour dust, and there is proof that he coughed up dust and dirt in his saliva. Beginning July 9, 1945, he was assigned to construction work in a grain elevator where he was exposed to grain dust. There…