Wooten v. State Compensation Commissioner

*502Browning, Judge :

Benjamin. M. Wooten, hereinafter referred to as claimant, appeals from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board affirming an order of the State Compensation Commissioner denying claimant’s application for silicosis benefits on the ground “claimant was not injuriously exposed to the hazard of silicon dioxide dust for a continuous period of not less than sixty days within two years prior to the filing of his application.”

The claimant, a coal miner, had been employed at general mine work since 1934 by the Lillybrook Coal Company at Lillybrook, West Virginia. He ceased…