Claim of White v. Tougher Industries

—Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed February 24, 1997, which ruled that claimant timely filed a claim for workers’ compensation benefits.

*939Claimant, a sheet metal worker, began suffering from hearing loss in 1989. In December 1994, he filed a claim for workers’ compensation benefits alleging that the hearing loss was caused by his work. The Workers’ Compensation Board found that claimant did not have knowledge that the hearing loss was work related until it was medically diagnosed in January 1995 and, therefore, the claim was timely filed pursuant to Workers’…