Flasche v. Bunker Hill Company

SMITH, Justice.

This appeal is from an order of the Industrial Accident Board denying appellant’s claim for workmen’s compensation benefits.

Appellant seeks recovery of compensation under either the workmen’s compensation law, contending that his affliction of pulmonary tuberculosis was accidently caused or aggravated by exposure to silica dust, I.C. § 72-201, or the occupational disease compensation law on the ground that his malady is silicosis complicated with tuberculosis, I.C. § 72-1220.

Appellant in his claim for compensation alleges an accident about November 14, 1958, while mining…