National Tank Co. v. Barnfield

IRWIN, Justice:

National Tank Company, an own risk insurer under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, hereinafter referred to as respondent, seeks review of an award for total permanent disability made in favor of Claude Barnfield (claimant).

One of the issues presented to the State Industrial Court was respondent’s contention that claimant’s claim filed May 20, 1974, was barred by the one year statute of limitations [85 O.S.1971, § 43].

The trial judge found claimant’s accidental injury was “due to exposure to loud noise over a period of years which either caused or aggravated a pre-existing…