Gibson v. Blue Diamond Coal Co.

CLAY, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a judgment confirming an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Board which denied the employee-appellant’s compensation claim for disability caused by silicosis.

The employee had worked in coal mines for forty years and had been exposed more or less continuously to rock dust and sand. In 1951 he was employed by appellee. At that time he had already contracted the “disease” of silicosis although it had not reached the disabling stage. He worked for appellee from 1951 to December 1956, during which time he was further exposed to rock dust and sand. He quit…