Webb v. Western Electric Co.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed December 30, 1975, as amended and corrected by decision filed October 7, 1977, which found claimant’s disability commencing on December 22, 1972 was the result of an occupational disease, one third of which was related to an industrial accident of November 16, 1964, which was the responsibility of the fund for reopened cases under section 25-a of the Workers’ Compensation Law. The claimant, Ernestine Webb, while employed by the Western Electric Company, Inc., on November 16, 1964, met with an industrial accident when she bent…