Masdin v. Gardner-Denver-Cooper Industries, Inc.

LEE, Justice. *

Claimant, Billy E. Masdin, seeks review of a final order of the Industrial Commission awarding him 25 percent permanent partial disability reduced by the amount of benefits to which he is entitled under an employer-funded disability retirement plan. Employer, Gardner-Denver-Cooper Industries, Inc., and insurer, CNA Insurance Companies, cross-petitioners, allege that the Commission erred in its determination that claimant suffered from a compensable occupational disease. We affirm in part and set aside the order in part.

On March 8, 1981, while deburring a piece of aluminum at…