Young v. West

VANCE, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a judgment affirming an award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board for permanent, total disability by reason of an occupational disease, the entire award to be paid by the Special Fund pursuant to KRS 342.316(13).

The appellee, Robert West, Jr., a coal miner in Eastern Kentucky, quit work in 196S after many years of continuous work as a miner. At the time he quit work he complained that his breathing was short and he was “hurting all over.” He was treated for paralysis and aside from his own testimony concerning shortness of breath, there is no…