Legal Opinion
Claim of Moore v. RPM Industries, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided October 20, 1988PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMahoney, P. J.
Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed March 16,1987.
In August 1979, RPM Industries, Inc., hired claimant to work at its manufacturing facility in Cayuga County. Using liquid acetone, which filled her enclosed, poorly ventilated workroom with fumes and odors, claimant cemented hundreds of plastic boxes a day while seated at a bench. About two years after starting work for RPM, claimant began to suffer coughing, wheezing and breathlessness, as well as irritation in her respiratory passages. The symptoms worsened over the next three years and on April 12, 1984,…
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