Meadows v. Workmen's Compensation Commissioner

Neely, Justice:

This is an appeal from a final order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board, dated January 29, 1973, affirming the Workmen’s Compensation Commissioner’s ruling of April 26, 1972, which rejected the appellant’s claim for benefits. The appellant asserted before the Commissioner and the Appeal Board that he had suffered an aggravation of a pre-existing condition of pneumo-coniosis because of an exposure to a dust hazard while employed by the FMC Corporation in its sheet metal department. Under the facts as developed at a hearing, the Appeal Board ruled that “there was no…