Claim of Moore v. Ford Motor Co.

An employer appeals from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board for claimant’s partial disability due to tinnitus in both ears, found by the board to be an occupational disease caused by exposure to noise from ribbing machines used in the process of assembling automobile heater cores.

The machines operated by air pressure and compressed air was released from each about 42 times per minute. Claimant described the noise as “ hissing ” and, also, as “ high-pitched ”, as to which he was competent to testify (cf. Richardson, Evidence [8th ed.], § 384), and said that he worked 10…