Shields v. Pittsburg & Midway Coal Mining Co.

McDONALD, Judge:

The appellant, Louis Edmond Shields, appeals from an order of the Hopkins Circuit Court reversing and remanding an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board awarding him total permanent disability benefits for the disease of coal workers’ pneumoconi-osis.

Appellant has worked in the coal mining business since 1940 as a driller. This particular occupation involves a great deal of direct exposure to coal dust. When he terminated his employment on March 30,1979, because of problems with his breathing, he was earning a salary of $74 a day.

Drs. Neal Calhoun, Raymond Snow-den, and…