Peabody Coal Company v. Harp

WADDILL, Commissioner.

The appeal is from a judgment confirming an award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board that granted William R. Harp benefits for total disability resulting from silicosis which he contracted while working in the mine of the Peabody Coal Company. The company seeks reversal of the judgment on the ground that Harp failed to give it timely notice of his disability as required by KRS 342.316(2).

Harp had been employed by the company since 1936. During the last ten years of his employment he worked near a coal-cutting machine and was exposed to a high concentration of rock and…