Brock v. Workmen's Compensation Board

JONES, Justice.

The Workmen’s Compensation Board denied the claim of Sillis Brock for compensation for total-permanent disability from pneumoconiosis. The basis for denial of the claim against Coal Resources was that Brock worked only two days (February 1st and 2nd, 1973). At the time of his last employment he was disabled from pneumo-coniosis and knew it.

On an appeal to the Harlan Circuit Court, the order and opinion by the board was affirmed. Brock appealed from that judgment.

The board found that Brock’s last injurious exposure to the hazards of the disease of pneumoconiosis occurred…