Hill v. General Motors Corporation

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fatzer, C. J.:

This is a workmen’s compensation case in which the employer challenges a compensation award made to an employee under the provisions of the occupational disease statute, K. S. A. 44-5a01 et seq.

The claimant, Betty J. Hill, was employed by respondent as an assembly line worker. Her job entailed the placing of molding on back windows of automobiles. Her work required repeated hammering with a rubber mallet. On January 7, 1971, she informed her foreman that her right arm was hurting and she was sent to the plant medical facility for…