Claim of Schul v. National Carbon Division, Union Carbide Co.

Appeal by an employer and carrier from a decision and award of the Workmen’s -Compensation Board for total disability caused by occupational silicosis. For 20 years prior to his cessation of employment in 1960 because of disablement, claimant, a bricklayer, worked in the plant of the employer; his duties entailed the repairing and rebuilding of below floor level furnaces constructed of refractory bricks in which carbon electrodes packed in a mixture of river sand and powdered coke, conceded to have contained siliceous materials, were cured or hardened by the application of heat for a period…