Cummings's Case

This is an appeal by the insurer from a decree of the Superior Court which upheld a decision of the Industrial Accident Board and awarded compensation to the employee based on total and permanent incapacity due to a fibrotic lung disease found by the board to have resulted from the inhalation of toxic dust and exposure to dyes in the course of his employment in a cotton mill. The issue before us is whether, on this record, there was sufficient evidence upon which the single member could have made that finding. Mahoney’s Case, 337 Mass. 629, 631 (1958). It was undisputed that exposure to…