Southwest Stone Company v. Washington

DAVISON, Justice.

Employer seeks review of an award granting claimant compensation for permanent total disability due to silicosis.

Claimant was intermittently employed in employer’s rock crushing plant for an aggregate period of some eleven years be tween 1936 and 1955. During a substantial ‘part of this time he performed his duties ' in the screen room where he was constantly exposed to dense dust emanating from the processed rock material. Laid off on November 16, 1955, as a result of general reduction in force, he was to resume work the following spring. Under the plant rules, each workman…