Kniat v. Industrial Commission

Valentine Kniat filed her application for adjustment of claim for compensation under the Occupational Diseases act to which she claims she was entitled as a result of the death of her husband, Frank Kniat. The arbitrator found that Kniat had slowly and insidiously developed a hernia due to periodic strains while lifting various articles of varying weights in the course of his employment with the respondent over a period of years, and that such hernia constituted an occupational disease as contemplated by section 6 of the Workmen’s Occupational Diseases act. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1941, chap. 48,…