Thomas v. Becker Metals Corp.

REINHARD, Presiding Judge.

Employee appeals from the judgment of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission denying his claim for disability benefits. We affirm.

Employee began working for Becker Metals on July 19, 1971. He last worked there in March, 1988. He is 49 years old, functionally illiterate and completely disabled with a variety of serious illnesses including complete renal failure. He is presently on dialysis twice a week. He first became ill in December, 1983, and was admitted on December 4, 1983 to St. Louis University Hospital and was diagnosed as having chronic hypertension…