Legal Opinion
Prophet v. Vickers
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided June 23, 1992No. 73907PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
SIMMS, Justice:
Chester Prophet filed a claim in March, 1988, for workers’ compensation benefits for cumulative effect loss of hearing resulting from his employment with Vickers. Claimant had worked for Vickers for some twenty years, seventeen of which he was employed as a machinist. His date of last exposure to the workplace noise was November, 1986. In the 1970’s, after working for Vickers for six or seven years, Prophet’s hearing was tested by an audiogram while serving with the National Guard. The technician performing the test informed him that he had sustained…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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