Miles v. State Compensation Commissioner

LovtNS, Judge:

This is an appeal from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board entered April 7, 1951, affirming an order of the State Compensation Commissioner, entered January .24, 1951. Appellant will be hereinafter referred to as “claimant”, and the appellee, Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation, as “employer”.

The claimant, a welder in the plant of the employer, filed an application for workmen’s compensation in August, 1949, contending that his physical condition, diagnosed by his physician as “acute bronchitis due to inhalation of vanadium oxide dust”, resulted from an exposure…