Mills v. Blake

HOWARD, Judge.

In this case, the appellant, the Uninsured Employers’ Fund, seeks to overturn a judgment of the Crittenden Circuit Court upholding an award of workers’ compensation benefits to the appellee, Oman Blake.

Blake filed a claim with the Workers’ Compensation Board on September 22, 1983, against Wesken Wood, Inc., a sawmill where Blake had last worked. Blake claimed that he had developed work-related respiratory problems and was totally disabled. The evidence shows that Blake had also worked about twenty-seven and one-half (27½) years in underground mines, mostly in fluorspar mines.…