Carroll v. Celsius Contractors

DANA, Justice.

Rudolph Carroll and sixteen other employees of Celsius Contractors, Inc. appeal a decision of the Appellate Division of the Workers’ Compensation Commission reversing a decision of the Commissioner that exposure to radiation constitutes an injury pursuant to the Workers’ Compensation Act, 39 M.R.S.A. § 94 (1989) (now 39-A M.R.S.A. § 305 (Pamph.1993)) (“Act”). We affirm the decision of the Appellate Division.

On February 13, 1989, Rudolph Carroll and sixteen others, all pipefitters, were working the night shift in a boiler-house project at the Georgia-Pacific Corporation mill in…