Hutcheson v. Weyerhaeuser Co.

This is a workers’ compensation claim for occupational disease in which the referee denied the claim and the Workers’ Compensation Board reversed the referee. We agree with the referee that claimant’s condition is not compensable.

Claimant is a 48-year-old male who had been employed by Weyerhaeuser for approximately 10 years. Claimant suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was hospitalized in 1967 for recurrent sinusitis and in 1970 for pneumonia, both of which were diagnosed as nonoccupational by his treating physicians. The question is whether his present condition is…