Freeman United Coal Mining Co. v. Industrial Comm'n

Docket No. 86438–Agenda 18–May 1999.

FREEMAN UNITED COAL MINING COMPANY, Appellee, v. THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION et al . (Thomas Lefler, Appellant).

Opinion filed October 21, 1999.

Claimant, Thomas Lefler, filed an application for adjustment of claim pursuant to the Workers’ Occupational Diseases Act (Act) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 48, par. 172.36 et seq .) alleging that he had contracted an occupational disease, coal worker’s pneumoconiosis (black lung disease), arising out of and in the course of his employment with Freeman United Coal Mining Company (the employer). The arbitrator denied…