Standard Rectifier Corp. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board

Petitioners seek annulment of an award of workmen’s compensation benefits for permanent disability issued in favor of respondent Edith J. Whiddon. We have concluded that the application for benefits was timely filed, that other contentions advanced by petitioners are also devoid of merit, and that the award should be affirmed.

Mrs. Whiddon, the employee, testified that her work required many repetitive motions of her arms, neck and shoulders, averaging 5,000 movements a day, five or six days a week. In April 1961 she first noticed aching in her arms, neck and head, and reported it to her…