Star Printery Company v. Pitman

BERRY, Justice.

Employer challenges, as erroneous and lacking evidentiary basis, the trial tribunal’s finding which attributes claimant’s disability to chronic lead poisoning — an occupational disease enumerated in 85 O.S.1961 § 3, subd. 16(16).

While engaged in employer’s printing plant at Muskogee between 1951 and 1959, claimant was regularly assigned to operate a linotype machine equipped with a “mort mill” which was described as a pot used for melting lead, zinc and other metals into “slugs” or molds. It was claimant’s daily duty to “clean out” the mort mill, remove “dust and dirt and stuff…