Burr v. State Compensation Commissioner

Calhoun, Judge:

This case is before the Court on appeal from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board which affirmed an order of the state compensation commissioner (now the director of workmen’s compensation) by which he held that the claimant, John F. Burr, had sustained no permanent injury as a consequence of an occupational disease arising from his employment by Union Carbide Corporation.

During the course of the claimant’s employment by Union Carbide Corporation, there developed a condition in the left vestibule of his nose which was subsequently diagnosed by physicians as a…