United States Steel Corp. v. Birchfield

CLAY, Commissioner.

Appellee Birchfield was awarded workmen’s compensation for permanent total disability by reason of having contracted silicosis while in appellant’s employ. The question raised on this appeal is whether or not timely notice of the disease was given to the employer.

The employee had worked in appellant’s mines for many years. He quit work February 11, 1954, when he was taken sick with what he described as the “flu”. The company doctor thought he had pneumonia. He was sent to a local hospital where he stayed two or three weeks. On April 23 he was sent to a hospital in…