Claim of Matott v. St. Joe's Lead

—Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed June 19, 1995, which ruled that claimant was not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits for a partial disability resulting from exposure to harmful dust.

Claimant was employed as a miner by the self-insured employer, a mining company, from 1949 until he retired in 1974 due to chest pains and shortness of breath. In 1991, he filed a claim for workers’ compensation benefits based upon an occupational lung disease which he alleged was due to exposure to dust, fumes and oil during his employment with the employer. The case was…