Bennett v. Peabody Coal Co.

MILLIKEN, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment affirming the refusal of the Workmen’s Compensation Board to grant the appellant compensation for a claimed disability.

Appellant had been employed as a coal miner by appellee for over thirty-five years when he was trapped for a period of 41 ½ hours by a mine cave-in on May 29, 1959. It is admitted that he suffered no physical injury during the cave-in and his resulting entrapment. In fact, he worked for ten months thereafter. However, over a year later, on July 14, 1960, he sought disability benefits for claustrophobia, a neurotic…