Dixon v. Nucor Steel Corporation

Shaw, Judge:

This is an appeal from an award of the South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission. Appellants, Nucor Steel Corporation and Aetna Casualty and Surety, hereinafter employer, appeal from an award of the single commissioner in favor of respondent, James H. Dixon. The full Commission and the circuit court upheld the award. We affirm.

Dixon worked as a welder for Nucor Steel Corporation for approximately fifteen years. He worked in an enclosed, poorly ventilated area with a hood over his head welding material soaked in various chemical solvents. Dixon began having severe respiratory…