Claim of Pacifico v. Treadway Inns Corp.

Appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed April 28, 1969, which affirmed an award to the claimant for disability due to causally related dermatitis, an occupational disease. Claimant, a baker, worked in a hotel bake shop located in a basement where it was steamy and hot, the temperature being 95 to 100 degrees and with even more intense heat when the oven was open. In April, 1965 she developed a lesion, a pustule and infection on her cheek, and in June of 1966 her face became red, sore and swollen. A year later she continued to have more difficulty and, upon following…